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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... Feminism, Democracy, Welfare (2009). Ilana Gershon received her PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2001. An assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University, she writes ...
... Feminism, Democracy, Welfare (2009). Ilana Gershon received her PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2001. An assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University, she writes ...
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... feminist theory, focusing in particular on the work of Judith Butler. Her most recent books include Beyond Identity Politics: Feminism, Power and Politics (Sage, 2005), Judith Butler: From Norms to Politics (Polity, 2007); and (with ...
... feminist theory, focusing in particular on the work of Judith Butler. Her most recent books include Beyond Identity Politics: Feminism, Power and Politics (Sage, 2005), Judith Butler: From Norms to Politics (Polity, 2007); and (with ...
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... feminism, queer theory, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, postmodernism, as well as the successors to Frankfurt School Critical Theory. 'Critical theory' in the broader sense is an effect of the appropriation and integration of both ...
... feminism, queer theory, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, postmodernism, as well as the successors to Frankfurt School Critical Theory. 'Critical theory' in the broader sense is an effect of the appropriation and integration of both ...
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... feminism', psychoanalysis, Foucault and deconstruction to forge a bold direction for queer theory. By contrast, Žižek's Lacanian Marxist analysis of late modern capitalism, nationalism and racism is a deliberate departure from what was ...
... feminism', psychoanalysis, Foucault and deconstruction to forge a bold direction for queer theory. By contrast, Žižek's Lacanian Marxist analysis of late modern capitalism, nationalism and racism is a deliberate departure from what was ...
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... feminist, post-colonial, anti-racist, anti-anthropocentric analysis of the contemporary capitalist and technologised world. She is also critical of her fellow-traveller in science studies, Latour, who shares with her and post ...
... feminist, post-colonial, anti-racist, anti-anthropocentric analysis of the contemporary capitalist and technologised world. She is also critical of her fellow-traveller in science studies, Latour, who shares with her and post ...
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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