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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... Lacan. Other theorists, namely, Haraway and Spivak, established themselves more fully with more substantive ... Lacanian Marxist analysis of late modern capitalism, nationalism and racism is a deliberate departure from what was a ...
... Lacan. Other theorists, namely, Haraway and Spivak, established themselves more fully with more substantive ... Lacanian Marxist analysis of late modern capitalism, nationalism and racism is a deliberate departure from what was a ...
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... Lacan on his way back to Lenin. While Agamben's work on language, the law and sovereignty appears to owe much to ... Lacanian psychoanalysis as well as Aristotle, Kant and Merleau-Ponty. Green theorists tend to consider themselves at ...
... Lacan on his way back to Lenin. While Agamben's work on language, the law and sovereignty appears to owe much to ... Lacanian psychoanalysis as well as Aristotle, Kant and Merleau-Ponty. Green theorists tend to consider themselves at ...
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... Lacan to Said's neglect of key figures in Cultural Studies. Similarly, film and media theorists are not included in their own right, thereby leading aside figures ranging from the feminist and queer film theory of Teresa de Lauretis, to ...
... Lacan to Said's neglect of key figures in Cultural Studies. Similarly, film and media theorists are not included in their own right, thereby leading aside figures ranging from the feminist and queer film theory of Teresa de Lauretis, to ...
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... Lacan to Said. 'Not much that has been written since has matched the ambitiousness and originality of these founding mothers and fathers', he says.5 Paul Bové, writing mostly with critical literary theory in mind as does Eagleton, also ...
... Lacan to Said. 'Not much that has been written since has matched the ambitiousness and originality of these founding mothers and fathers', he says.5 Paul Bové, writing mostly with critical literary theory in mind as does Eagleton, also ...
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... Lacan to Said should give way to a fresher wave of 'theories and the activity of theorizing'. Perhaps their alternative of 'middlerange inquiry' that moves from 'bodies of evidence to more general argument' is not critical in the way ...
... Lacan to Said should give way to a fresher wave of 'theories and the activity of theorizing'. Perhaps their alternative of 'middlerange inquiry' that moves from 'bodies of evidence to more general argument' is not critical in the way ...
Contents
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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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