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 131
Haraway's tendency to rethink binaries as relations places her in the company of
deconstructionists , and her later work does engage the writing of Jacques
Derrida . Haraway's gestures to Derrida are measured and critical , however , as
is the ...
Haraway's tendency to rethink binaries as relations places her in the company of
deconstructionists , and her later work does engage the writing of Jacques
Derrida . Haraway's gestures to Derrida are measured and critical , however , as
is the ...
Page 197
For Plato , written discourse must be criticised and banished because it does not
know when to remain silent ; it fails to play its proper role . Thus , the threat that
the sophist poses to the ordered city is the threat of writing , or what Rancière will
...
For Plato , written discourse must be criticised and banished because it does not
know when to remain silent ; it fails to play its proper role . Thus , the threat that
the sophist poses to the ordered city is the threat of writing , or what Rancière will
...
Page 213
As Derrida demonstrates , the systematic effacement of arche - writing in western
philosophical notions of truth is also evident in western ethnographic descriptions
of oral - based cultures . In his critique of Lévi - Strauss's self - reflexive , anti ...
As Derrida demonstrates , the systematic effacement of arche - writing in western
philosophical notions of truth is also evident in western ethnographic descriptions
of oral - based cultures . In his critique of Lévi - Strauss's self - reflexive , anti ...
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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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