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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Page 17
... becomes 'the voice of a mere sound'.9 Voice is not the human discursive voice, but the voice that lies between animal voice and discourse; it is 'no longer the experience of sound, and not yet the experience of meaning'. Agamben is ...
... becomes 'the voice of a mere sound'.9 Voice is not the human discursive voice, but the voice that lies between animal voice and discourse; it is 'no longer the experience of sound, and not yet the experience of meaning'. Agamben is ...
Page 21
... become nothing – but, for all that, they maintain a residue of humanity – they are the ones that can be killed. We can see how this plays out in the killing of the Nazi camps, but inclusion of the word 'sacred' alerts us that it is not ...
... become nothing – but, for all that, they maintain a residue of humanity – they are the ones that can be killed. We can see how this plays out in the killing of the Nazi camps, but inclusion of the word 'sacred' alerts us that it is not ...
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... becomes sacred and all politics becomes the exception'.24 The implication is that, increasingly, humans become totally subject to rules and regulations, subject to exclusion, and less and less subject as subjects within the realm of law ...
... becomes sacred and all politics becomes the exception'.24 The implication is that, increasingly, humans become totally subject to rules and regulations, subject to exclusion, and less and less subject as subjects within the realm of law ...
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... become a witness to this impossibility of witnessing that the Muselmann is. The peculiar, exceptional circumstance that produces this category of bare life is one that returns us to the totality of being as witnessing, and to language ...
... become a witness to this impossibility of witnessing that the Muselmann is. The peculiar, exceptional circumstance that produces this category of bare life is one that returns us to the totality of being as witnessing, and to language ...
Page 24
... becomes more acute in democratic parliamentary situations. The exception spreads as legislatures give more and more ground to executive sectors of government, because sovereignty occurs when a decision must be made: 'sovereign is he who ...
... becomes more acute in democratic parliamentary situations. The exception spreads as legislatures give more and more ground to executive sectors of government, because sovereignty occurs when a decision must be made: 'sovereign is he who ...
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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