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
... idea announced in Infancy and History is developed here to add in the notion of human language always containing a meaning it cannot say. This meaning is simply but essentially 'I speak' or 'I mean'. Language cannot convey the most ...
... idea announced in Infancy and History is developed here to add in the notion of human language always containing a meaning it cannot say. This meaning is simply but essentially 'I speak' or 'I mean'. Language cannot convey the most ...
Page 19
... idea of the open is a good one, particularly when thought of in terms where 'the animal is at once open and not open – or, better, it is neither one nor the other: it is open in a non- disconcealment'.16 The end of The Open returns to ...
... idea of the open is a good one, particularly when thought of in terms where 'the animal is at once open and not open – or, better, it is neither one nor the other: it is open in a non- disconcealment'.16 The end of The Open returns to ...
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... idea of 'bare life', of a humanity stripped of nearly all of its defining characteristics, which is at its most denuded in the Nazi concentration camps. Bare life is at its height in the 'biopolitics' of modernity, but, according to ...
... idea of 'bare life', of a humanity stripped of nearly all of its defining characteristics, which is at its most denuded in the Nazi concentration camps. Bare life is at its height in the 'biopolitics' of modernity, but, according to ...
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... idea of democratic legitimacy, they also spread the idea of the moment outside of that legitimacy. This moment can be the founding instance, or when the 'system' needs to protect itself as a matter of urgency. The moment of both ...
... idea of democratic legitimacy, they also spread the idea of the moment outside of that legitimacy. This moment can be the founding instance, or when the 'system' needs to protect itself as a matter of urgency. The moment of both ...
Page 25
... ideas coalesce, through the prism of messianic time. In looking at St Paul, he also extends Benjamin's exploration of ... idea, this conception of time refers to how Jewish law pertained only to Jews. From Paul onward, the world is not ...
... ideas coalesce, through the prism of messianic time. In looking at St Paul, he also extends Benjamin's exploration of ... idea, this conception of time refers to how Jewish law pertained only to Jews. From Paul onward, the world is not ...
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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