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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... Reader (Blackwell, 2001) and Zygmunt Bauman – Dialectic of Modernity (Sage, 2000), and is collecting his essays on Bauman for a separate volume. Arianna Bove currently teaches at Queen Mary College, University of London. She is a ...
... Reader (Blackwell, 2001) and Zygmunt Bauman – Dialectic of Modernity (Sage, 2000), and is collecting his essays on Bauman for a separate volume. Arianna Bove currently teaches at Queen Mary College, University of London. She is a ...
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... reading. On completing each chapter, readers should feel confident that they can make an informed decision about ... reading. If this book succeeds in its aims, it will have whetted its readers' appetites to read more of the critical ...
... reading. On completing each chapter, readers should feel confident that they can make an informed decision about ... reading. If this book succeeds in its aims, it will have whetted its readers' appetites to read more of the critical ...
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... reading a text. The critical theorists in this volume attend as much to 'things' or 'events' as to 'words' or even 'discursively constructed things'. As Latour puts it, what matters to such theory is the complexity of matter.4 There is ...
... reading a text. The critical theorists in this volume attend as much to 'things' or 'events' as to 'words' or even 'discursively constructed things'. As Latour puts it, what matters to such theory is the complexity of matter.4 There is ...
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... reading of Carl Schmitt's theory of sovereignty, in State of Exception. Just as with Remnants of Auschwitz, actual political situations are where the apparently abstract thought of Being can be conducted – Guantanamo Bay and the ...
... reading of Carl Schmitt's theory of sovereignty, in State of Exception. Just as with Remnants of Auschwitz, actual political situations are where the apparently abstract thought of Being can be conducted – Guantanamo Bay and the ...
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... reading of science and its history. Yet the range of his reading and ethical drive makes him a vital part of any self-reflective political philosophy. Notes 1. Agamben uses Foucault's notion of 'biopolitics' throughout much of his work ...
... reading of science and its history. Yet the range of his reading and ethical drive makes him a vital part of any self-reflective political philosophy. Notes 1. Agamben uses Foucault's notion of 'biopolitics' throughout much of his work ...
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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