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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... truth-directed Marxism harkens back to Plato in a conscious distancing from Nietzschean postmodernism, while Bauman works above all to renew the ethos of Marxist critique, remodelled to fit 'liquid modernity' rather than 'postmodernity ...
... truth-directed Marxism harkens back to Plato in a conscious distancing from Nietzschean postmodernism, while Bauman works above all to renew the ethos of Marxist critique, remodelled to fit 'liquid modernity' rather than 'postmodernity ...
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... truth of humanity. Agamben claims in Infancy and History that the transcendental is located not beyond, but in, language. To back up this point, he returns to the question of speech as a human phenomenon. The history of philosophy ...
... truth of humanity. Agamben claims in Infancy and History that the transcendental is located not beyond, but in, language. To back up this point, he returns to the question of speech as a human phenomenon. The history of philosophy ...
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... truth about it, which is that it must be distant not only from its object and the speaking subject, but also from the truth of language, which is its capacity to exist as language (as opposed to animal sounds). All of language, whether ...
... truth about it, which is that it must be distant not only from its object and the speaking subject, but also from the truth of language, which is its capacity to exist as language (as opposed to animal sounds). All of language, whether ...
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... truth of humanity (as evidenced in the existence of language) plays out in the world of politics, law and social control. The figure of homo sacer appears – he who can be killed, the one outside of society and deprived of humanity. Homo ...
... truth of humanity (as evidenced in the existence of language) plays out in the world of politics, law and social control. The figure of homo sacer appears – he who can be killed, the one outside of society and deprived of humanity. Homo ...
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... truth about the human condition that is timeless, but one that is historical, occurring in specific times, politics and contexts that bring out something primordial but social. The Nazi regime, in which the camps were the most extreme ...
... truth about the human condition that is timeless, but one that is historical, occurring in specific times, politics and contexts that bring out something primordial but social. The Nazi regime, in which the camps were the most extreme ...
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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