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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... critical theorists selected, such that readers have an understanding of their main ideas that is good enough as a ... theory', whether that be political theory, social theory, cultural theory, literary theory, continental philosophy, or ...
... critical theorists selected, such that readers have an understanding of their main ideas that is good enough as a ... theory', whether that be political theory, social theory, cultural theory, literary theory, continental philosophy, or ...
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... critical theory. I also argued that the explosion of critical theories by the 1980s had both its significant precursors and successors. The first volume in this trilogy, From Kant to Lévi-Strauss, was dedicated to the former, including ...
... critical theory. I also argued that the explosion of critical theories by the 1980s had both its significant precursors and successors. The first volume in this trilogy, From Kant to Lévi-Strauss, was dedicated to the former, including ...
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... theory, their debt to more groundbreaking post-structuralist theorists such as Derrida and Foucault is also clear ... critical humanities retrospectively. Some of the theorists in this volume can be seen as developers and synthesisers of the ...
... theory, their debt to more groundbreaking post-structuralist theorists such as Derrida and Foucault is also clear ... critical humanities retrospectively. Some of the theorists in this volume can be seen as developers and synthesisers of the ...
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... critical tradition's vacillation between technological optimism and anti-Enlightenment scepticism, though Naess ... theory in his quest for axiomatic and universal philosophical truth. Green theorists adopt a critical realist position ...
... critical tradition's vacillation between technological optimism and anti-Enlightenment scepticism, though Naess ... theory in his quest for axiomatic and universal philosophical truth. Green theorists adopt a critical realist position ...
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... critical theorists in this volume attend as much to 'things' or 'events' as to 'words' or even 'discursively constructed things'. As Latour puts it, what matters to such theory is the complexity of matter.4 There is also less of a ...
... critical theorists in this volume attend as much to 'things' or 'events' as to 'words' or even 'discursively constructed things'. As Latour puts it, what matters to such theory is the complexity of matter.4 There is also less of a ...
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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