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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Page 15
... Language In his early books, Agamben probes the meaning of language and its place in the history of metaphysics, as a way of understanding being. The starting point is the absolute role of negativity in creating the human. Hegel ...
... Language In his early books, Agamben probes the meaning of language and its place in the history of metaphysics, as a way of understanding being. The starting point is the absolute role of negativity in creating the human. Hegel ...
Page 16
... 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 of self-consciousness: 'if language ...
... 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 of self-consciousness: 'if language ...
Page 17
... language always containing a meaning it cannot say. This meaning is simply but essentially 'I speak' or 'I mean'. Language cannot convey the most essential truth about it, which is that it must be distant not only from its object and ...
... language always containing a meaning it cannot say. This meaning is simply but essentially 'I speak' or 'I mean'. Language cannot convey the most essential truth about it, which is that it must be distant not only from its object and ...
Page 18
... Language and Death announce his future interests directly. In a way that recalls Levinas, Agamben suggests that this ... language, and the argument that language has an other – whether in the political world, the animal world, the human ...
... Language and Death announce his future interests directly. In a way that recalls Levinas, Agamben suggests that this ... language, and the argument that language has an other – whether in the political world, the animal world, the human ...
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Jon Simons. only animal with discursive language, echoing the self-reflexivity or awareness that only it has, and the essence of that is the transition where language is nothing, where the threat of death is all: 'perhaps not only ...
Jon Simons. only animal with discursive language, echoing the self-reflexivity or awareness that only it has, and the essence of that is the transition where language is nothing, where the threat of death is all: 'perhaps not only ...
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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