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. previous theorists. While the innovation of Laclau's and Mouffe's post- Marxism was immediately felt in political and cultural theory, their debt to more groundbreaking post- structuralist ...
Contemporary Critical Theorists Jon Simons. previous theorists. While the innovation of Laclau's and Mouffe's post- Marxism was immediately felt in political and cultural theory, their debt to more groundbreaking post- structuralist ...
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Contemporary Critical Theorists Jon Simons. tendency among this collection of thinkers is to draw consciously on the precursors to the wave of theorists who were to be labelled as post- structuralists and postmodernists. Such a tendency ...
Contemporary Critical Theorists Jon Simons. tendency among this collection of thinkers is to draw consciously on the precursors to the wave of theorists who were to be labelled as post- structuralists and postmodernists. Such a tendency ...
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Contemporary Critical Theorists Jon Simons. scientific understanding of the creativity of nature, as well as by critiquing the pseudo- scientific nature of structuralism. Negri's reference to Spinoza's ontology similarly posits a world ...
Contemporary Critical Theorists Jon Simons. scientific understanding of the creativity of nature, as well as by critiquing the pseudo- scientific nature of structuralism. Negri's reference to Spinoza's ontology similarly posits a world ...
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Contemporary Critical Theorists Jon Simons. and queer film theory of Teresa de Lauretis, to the critical sociological analysis of the information age and network society by Manuel Castells, to Régis Debray's 'mediology', to the embodied ...
Contemporary Critical Theorists Jon Simons. and queer film theory of Teresa de Lauretis, to the critical sociological analysis of the information age and network society by Manuel Castells, to Régis Debray's 'mediology', to the embodied ...
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Contemporary Critical Theorists Jon Simons. is characterised as 'a process of mutual contamination between “theory” and “empiria”'. The range and quality of theoreticallyinformed research across the 'critical humanities', characterised ...
Contemporary Critical Theorists Jon Simons. is characterised as 'a process of mutual contamination between “theory” and “empiria”'. The range and quality of theoreticallyinformed research across the 'critical humanities', characterised ...
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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