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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... animal, an intermediate state that, even as it appears, is shoved into the background to be made part of a society based on law. Similarly, the 'state of nature', identified by Hobbes as a terrain of total war, is not pure nature, but ...
... animal, an intermediate state that, even as it appears, is shoved into the background to be made part of a society based on law. Similarly, the 'state of nature', identified by Hobbes as a terrain of total war, is not pure nature, but ...
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... animals. Both the ones who can be killed and the sovereign are outside the Law just as they are at its very core. The sovereign, in the form of a king, for example, is outside and beyond the Law as he is its guarantor. At the same time ...
... animals. Both the ones who can be killed and the sovereign are outside the Law just as they are at its very core. The sovereign, in the form of a king, for example, is outside and beyond the Law as he is its guarantor. At the same time ...
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... animal existence, bereft of humanity. The Muselmann is the true witness of the camp, truer in one way than those who survive with their humanity intact. These two categories interact in Agamben's argument. The Muselmann leaves the world ...
... animal existence, bereft of humanity. The Muselmann is the true witness of the camp, truer in one way than those who survive with their humanity intact. These two categories interact in Agamben's argument. The Muselmann leaves the world ...
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... animal or fully human, fully social (the place of homo sacer). The Muselmann is the no- one who can be there for the witnessing, through not really being there. He, in turn, requires the witness who survives to become a witness to this ...
... animal or fully human, fully social (the place of homo sacer). The Muselmann is the no- one who can be there for the witnessing, through not really being there. He, in turn, requires the witness who survives to become a witness to this ...
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... Animal, trans. Kevin Attell (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004 [2002]). Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy, trans. Daniel Heller- Roazen (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999). Remnants of Auschwitz: The ...
... Animal, trans. Kevin Attell (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004 [2002]). Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy, trans. Daniel Heller- Roazen (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999). Remnants of Auschwitz: The ...
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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