From Agamben to ZizekIn 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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He is the author of Slavoj Žižek: A Little Piece of the Real (Ashgate, 2004), and
coauthor of Žižek and Politics (Edinburgh, 2010), Understanding Psychoanalysis
(Acumen, 2007) and The Times Will Suit Them: Postmodern Conservatism in ...
He is the author of Slavoj Žižek: A Little Piece of the Real (Ashgate, 2004), and
coauthor of Žižek and Politics (Edinburgh, 2010), Understanding Psychoanalysis
(Acumen, 2007) and The Times Will Suit Them: Postmodern Conservatism in ...
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... discourse analysis, structuralism and post-structuralism, ideology critique of all
varieties, deconstruction, feminism, queer theory, psychoanalysis,
postcolonialism, postmodernism, as well as the successors to Frankfurt School
Critical Theory.
... discourse analysis, structuralism and post-structuralism, ideology critique of all
varieties, deconstruction, feminism, queer theory, psychoanalysis,
postcolonialism, postmodernism, as well as the successors to Frankfurt School
Critical Theory.
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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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... and holds a different set of antipathies – to postmodern celebration of irony and
consumption, multicultural identity politics and a textual-hermeneutical grounding
of existence. Even stylistically, Badiou tends to be indifferent to cultivating the ...
... and holds a different set of antipathies – to postmodern celebration of irony and
consumption, multicultural identity politics and a textual-hermeneutical grounding
of existence. Even stylistically, Badiou tends to be indifferent to cultivating the ...
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... generated at least thirty books, published in at least thirty languages, and
covering an extraordinary array of interests,. 3. from utopia to hermeneutics,
culture to mortality, postmodernity, intellectuals, violence, 45 3 Zygmunt Bauman
(1925–)
... generated at least thirty books, published in at least thirty languages, and
covering an extraordinary array of interests,. 3. from utopia to hermeneutics,
culture to mortality, postmodernity, intellectuals, violence, 45 3 Zygmunt Bauman
(1925–)
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Contents
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| 14 | |
| 29 | |
| 45 | |
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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Bibliographic information
| Title | From Agamben to Zizek |
| Author | Jon Simons |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0748686746, 9780748686742 |
| Length | 288 pages |
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