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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... at Johns Hopkins University. He writes broadly in political theory, including work on language, culture and the politics of gender and sexuality. He is the author of Untimely Politics (Edinburgh University Press, viii Notes on Contributors.
... at Johns Hopkins University. He writes broadly in political theory, including work on language, culture and the politics of gender and sexuality. He is the author of Untimely Politics (Edinburgh University Press, viii Notes on Contributors.
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... language, the law and sovereignty appears to owe much to Derrida and Foucault, his declared debts are to Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Benjamin and Aristotle. Badiou's truth-directed Marxism harkens back to Plato in a conscious distancing ...
... language, the law and sovereignty appears to owe much to Derrida and Foucault, his declared debts are to Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Benjamin and Aristotle. Badiou's truth-directed Marxism harkens back to Plato in a conscious distancing ...
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... language'.10 Critical theory is often deployed as a critique of traditional disciplines, whether literary study in the humanistic tradition for which, as Eagleton quips, 'it was enough to pronounce Keats delectable or Milton a doughty ...
... language'.10 Critical theory is often deployed as a critique of traditional disciplines, whether literary study in the humanistic tradition for which, as Eagleton quips, 'it was enough to pronounce Keats delectable or Milton a doughty ...
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... languages of those post-colonial subjects, especially women, who are excluded in the complex interplay between local, national and global hierarchies and capitalist inequalities; Virilio to theorise the arts of technology that condemn ...
... languages of those post-colonial subjects, especially women, who are excluded in the complex interplay between local, national and global hierarchies and capitalist inequalities; Virilio to theorise the arts of technology that condemn ...
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... language, Agamben's early writings focus directly on language and its limits – where it begins, ends, fails, becomes nothing. Throughout his oeuvre, he has also considered the form and function of aesthetic production, the role of the ...
... language, Agamben's early writings focus directly on language and its limits – where it begins, ends, fails, becomes nothing. Throughout his oeuvre, he has also considered the form and function of aesthetic production, the role of the ...
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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