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 20
... existence of language) plays out in the world of politics, law and social control. The figure of homo sacer appears – he who can be killed, the one outside of society and deprived of humanity. Homo Sacer opens up Agamben's long ...
... existence of language) plays out in the world of politics, law and social control. The figure of homo sacer appears – he who can be killed, the one outside of society and deprived of humanity. Homo Sacer opens up Agamben's long ...
Page 21
... existence.21 Agamben adamantly sets himself against ambiguous notions of the sacred that emerged in late nineteenth- century anthropology. Oddly, the only notion of 'sacred'he considers is from Roman law, where the sacred/sacer is the ...
... existence.21 Agamben adamantly sets himself against ambiguous notions of the sacred that emerged in late nineteenth- century anthropology. Oddly, the only notion of 'sacred'he considers is from Roman law, where the sacred/sacer is the ...
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... 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 of ...
... 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 of ...
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... existence of language without content, of being without being either animal or fully human, fully social (the place ... existence of both categories is essential, as, in surviving, the witness recounts the bare life of the Muselmann ...
... existence of language without content, of being without being either animal or fully human, fully social (the place ... existence of both categories is essential, as, in surviving, the witness recounts the bare life of the Muselmann ...
Page 29
... existence. Even stylistically, Badiou tends to be indifferent to cultivating the character of his prose. He writes precisely and didactically, with an irreverent, even pugnacious humour, and no pretense of modesty. As a philosopher, his ...
... existence. Even stylistically, Badiou tends to be indifferent to cultivating the character of his prose. He writes precisely and didactically, with an irreverent, even pugnacious humour, and no pretense of modesty. As a philosopher, his ...
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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