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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... Nature (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979), p. 263. 4. Bruno Latour, 'Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern', Critical Inquiry, 30, 2004, pp. 225–48. 5. Terry Eagleton, After Theory (New ...
... Nature (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979), p. 263. 4. Bruno Latour, 'Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern', Critical Inquiry, 30, 2004, pp. 225–48. 5. Terry Eagleton, After Theory (New ...
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... nature or any specific identity [i.e. the situation animals find themselves in] – must experience this poverty more radically'.11 Agamben's recent works maintain his obsession with language, and the argument that language has an other ...
... nature or any specific identity [i.e. the situation animals find themselves in] – must experience this poverty more radically'.11 Agamben's recent works maintain his obsession with language, and the argument that language has an other ...
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... nature, but his philosophising about 'the animal' does not match the level of eighteenth- century writers like Buffon, or of the early evolutionists, let alone attempt a contemporary assessment of the question. Despite this, he makes ...
... nature, but his philosophising about 'the animal' does not match the level of eighteenth- century writers like Buffon, or of the early evolutionists, let alone attempt a contemporary assessment of the question. Despite this, he makes ...
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... nature but on its exclusion of biology. Sovereignty, then, must be based on biopolitics, while the concentration ... nature', identified by Hobbes as a terrain of total war, is not pure nature, but man emerging from nature, the condition ...
... nature but on its exclusion of biology. Sovereignty, then, must be based on biopolitics, while the concentration ... nature', identified by Hobbes as a terrain of total war, is not pure nature, but man emerging from nature, the condition ...
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... nature is held back to be restructured as the exception that guarantees all else. According to Agamben, this is not merely the mystical beginning of authority but a potential that cannot go away, the perpetual absent part of existing ...
... nature is held back to be restructured as the exception that guarantees all else. According to Agamben, this is not merely the mystical beginning of authority but a potential that cannot go away, the perpetual absent part of existing ...
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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