From Agamben to ZizekEdinburgh University Press, 2010 M09 10 - 288 pages In these 15 taster essays you will discover the key concepts and critical approaches of the theorists who have had the most significant impact on the humanities since 1990. |
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... Thinking the Political in the Wake of Althusser, to be published by University of Wales Press (in the series Political Philosophy Now, edited by Howard Williams). Introduction Jon Simons This volume offers fifteen introductory essays ...
... Thinking the Political in the Wake of Althusser, to be published by University of Wales Press (in the series Political Philosophy Now, edited by Howard Williams). Introduction Jon Simons This volume offers fifteen introductory essays ...
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... thinking much more deconstructively, and that it is from the human perspective that we identify this as significant, as if it always already was so. Because of the connectedness of animal and human, Agamben's insight is that the human ...
... thinking much more deconstructively, and that it is from the human perspective that we identify this as significant, as if it always already was so. Because of the connectedness of animal and human, Agamben's insight is that the human ...
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... thinking whereby the human is divided into essence and biology, but the point here is the human does not become merely animal but merely human). Witnessing implies surviving, that something remains (translated as 'remnant' in English) ...
... thinking whereby the human is divided into essence and biology, but the point here is the human does not become merely animal but merely human). Witnessing implies surviving, that something remains (translated as 'remnant' in English) ...
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... thinking 'possibly everyone' in terms of 'not everyone', which then defines the character of those who await and who have the past resuscitated in preparation for judgement. Agamben's political intent here presumes we agree with his ...
... thinking 'possibly everyone' in terms of 'not everyone', which then defines the character of those who await and who have the past resuscitated in preparation for judgement. Agamben's political intent here presumes we agree with his ...
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... thinking is the twentieth-century achievement. Contrary to the received view of a century distorted by ideological passion, Badiou holds that the century's distinctive 'passion for the real' drove it beyond satisfaction with the ...
... thinking is the twentieth-century achievement. Contrary to the received view of a century distorted by ideological passion, Badiou holds that the century's distinctive 'passion for the real' drove it beyond satisfaction with the ...
Contents
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4 Homi K Bhabha 1949 | 60 |
5 Judith Butler 1956 | 77 |
6 Cornelius Castoriadis 192297 | 93 |
7 Green Critical Theorists | 110 |
10 Bruno Latour 1947 | 161 |
11 Antonio Negri 1933 | 177 |
12 Jacques Rancière 1940 | 194 |
13 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 1942 | 210 |
14 Paul Virilio 1932 | 227 |
15 Slavoj Žižek 1949 | 243 |
Names index | 259 |
Subject index | 263 |
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