From Agamben to Zizek: Contemporary Critical TheoristsJon Simons Edinburgh 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. 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, Ranciere and Spivak, there are chapters on Laclau and Mouffe, and a chapter on Green critical theorists. |
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Contemporary Critical Theorists Jon Simons. He is the author of Untimely Politics (Edinburgh University Press, 2003), The Queer Politics of Television (IB Tauris, 2009) and coauthor, with Terrell Carver, of Judith Butler and Political ...
Contemporary Critical Theorists Jon Simons. He is the author of Untimely Politics (Edinburgh University Press, 2003), The Queer Politics of Television (IB Tauris, 2009) and coauthor, with Terrell Carver, of Judith Butler and Political ...
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... University Press, 2009). She is currently working on two projects: a text on gender and sexuality and a research monograph entitled 'Who Counts?' Joan Faber McAlister is an assistant professor of Rhetoric and Communication Studies in ...
... University Press, 2009). She is currently working on two projects: a text on gender and sexuality and a research monograph entitled 'Who Counts?' Joan Faber McAlister is an assistant professor of Rhetoric and Communication Studies in ...
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... University. He is the author of Slavoj Žižek: A Little Piece of the Real (Ashgate, 2004), and coauthor of Žižek and ... Press, 2002 and 2004 respectively). Simon Tormey is Professor and Head of the School of Social and Political Sciences, ...
... University. He is the author of Slavoj Žižek: A Little Piece of the Real (Ashgate, 2004), and coauthor of Žižek and ... Press, 2002 and 2004 respectively). Simon Tormey is Professor and Head of the School of Social and Political Sciences, ...
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... academic style might explain his more widespread influence by the 1990s. Green theory, which cannot sensibly be reduced to a 'star' theorist, drew more attention as awareness about global environmental crises grew, yet had already ...
... academic style might explain his more widespread influence by the 1990s. Green theory, which cannot sensibly be reduced to a 'star' theorist, drew more attention as awareness about global environmental crises grew, yet had already ...
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... media and the arts, can best be understood and critiqued in the mode of ... universities. The dynamic whereby American and other Anglophone academia ... media theorists are not included in their own right, thereby leading aside figures ...
... media and the arts, can best be understood and critiqued in the mode of ... universities. The dynamic whereby American and other Anglophone academia ... media theorists are not included in their own right, thereby leading aside figures ...
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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