From Agamben to Žižek: Contemporary Critical TheoristsIn 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. On completing each chapter, you will find suggestions for further reading so that you can find out more and start applying the ideas in question. In addition to chapters on individuals such as Badiou, Ranci re and Spivak, there are chapters on Laclau and Mouffe, and a chapter on Green critical theorists. |
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Page 95
There can be no structure or law that can predetermine and account for the
contents of a given society because there is a productive element within every
societal structure which remains ungraspable . Structuralist attempts to
extrapolate a ...
There can be no structure or law that can predetermine and account for the
contents of a given society because there is a productive element within every
societal structure which remains ungraspable . Structuralist attempts to
extrapolate a ...
Page 97
In both the history of philosophy and psychoanalysis itself , radical imagination
has been undertheorised and sometimes occluded in positions that emphasise
the linguistic structure and presentation of the unconscious . The second mode of
...
In both the history of philosophy and psychoanalysis itself , radical imagination
has been undertheorised and sometimes occluded in positions that emphasise
the linguistic structure and presentation of the unconscious . The second mode of
...
Page 115
Rodman agrees with Marcuse that ' revolutions fail when led by people who
perpetuate in their character the authority structure of the old regime ” ; 16 and
similar problems arise in the ' liberation ' of external nature : The buffalo herd in ...
Rodman agrees with Marcuse that ' revolutions fail when led by people who
perpetuate in their character the authority structure of the old regime ” ; 16 and
similar problems arise in the ' liberation ' of external nature : The buffalo herd in ...
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Contents
Giorgio Agamben 1942 | 14 |
Alain Badiou 1937 | 29 |
Zygmunt Bauman 1925 | 45 |
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| Title | From Agamben to Žižek: Contemporary Critical Theorists |
| Editor | Jon Simons |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press, 2010 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 Sep 2011 |
| ISBN | 074863973X, 9780748639731 |
| Length | 275 pages |
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