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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... intellectual contextualisation, presents and explains key concepts, outlines some major angles of criticism, indicates areas and ways in which the theories have been applied, and offers suggestions for further reading. On completing ...
... intellectual contextualisation, presents and explains key concepts, outlines some major angles of criticism, indicates areas and ways in which the theories have been applied, and offers suggestions for further reading. On completing ...
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... intellectual homes in American universities. The dynamic whereby American and other Anglophone academia relied on European (and mostly Francophone) imports in order to generate the intellectual phenomenon that is contemporary critical ...
... intellectual homes in American universities. The dynamic whereby American and other Anglophone academia relied on European (and mostly Francophone) imports in order to generate the intellectual phenomenon that is contemporary critical ...
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... intellectual pursuit largely practised within academia, it is not as Bové remarks, limited to struggles over revising the canon but is also, as Eagleton says, 'the taxing business of trying to grasp what is actually going on', whether ...
... intellectual pursuit largely practised within academia, it is not as Bové remarks, limited to struggles over revising the canon but is also, as Eagleton says, 'the taxing business of trying to grasp what is actually going on', whether ...
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... intellectual backwash to a tumultuous political era', providing ideas with 'a last, brilliant efflorescence when the ... intellectuals and theory 'a certain real but limited place in the academy', one which has consistently been under ...
... intellectual backwash to a tumultuous political era', providing ideas with 'a last, brilliant efflorescence when the ... intellectuals and theory 'a certain real but limited place in the academy', one which has consistently been under ...
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... intellectuals who made up much of the wave of theory that preceded the 'Golden Age', as I remarked in the introduction to From Kant to Lévi-Strauss. As a pariah, critical theory both inhabits the academy and critiques the state of ...
... intellectuals who made up much of the wave of theory that preceded the 'Golden Age', as I remarked in the introduction to From Kant to Lévi-Strauss. As a pariah, critical theory both inhabits the academy and critiques the state of ...
Contents
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29 | |
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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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