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 16
... human children's acquisition of language, their move from the simple inhabiting of speech of animals, to language and discourse. In so doing, language becomes a way of knowing the world that is other to the subject, and then the means ...
... human children's acquisition of language, their move from the simple inhabiting of speech of animals, to language and discourse. In so doing, language becomes a way of knowing the world that is other to the subject, and then the means ...
Page 17
... human perspective that we identify this as significant, as if it always already was so. Because of the connectedness of animal and human, Agamben's insight is that the human voice is the loss of animal voice (a loss which only occurs ...
... human perspective that we identify this as significant, as if it always already was so. Because of the connectedness of animal and human, Agamben's insight is that the human voice is the loss of animal voice (a loss which only occurs ...
Page 18
... human exist is the basis of ethics, as it makes otherness and the awareness of otherness the core human attribute. At the same time, human culture is a turning away from brute, simple death. He makes this paradoxical situation the core ...
... human exist is the basis of ethics, as it makes otherness and the awareness of otherness the core human attribute. At the same time, human culture is a turning away from brute, simple death. He makes this paradoxical situation the core ...
Page 19
... human and animal through use of language we are only retrospectively justifying a difference based on a presumption, one that requires tricky judgements on 'pre- humans', 'excluding as not (yet) human an already human being from itself ...
... human and animal through use of language we are only retrospectively justifying a difference based on a presumption, one that requires tricky judgements on 'pre- humans', 'excluding as not (yet) human an already human being from itself ...
Page 20
... humanity that is neither quite human nor 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 ...
... humanity that is neither quite human nor 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 ...
Contents
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29 | |
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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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