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 14
... philosopher. His reception has tied him to the wave of 'French' theory in 1960s, but whilst he acknowledges Derrida and uses some parts of Foucault's theories, he associated himself more closely with 'continental philosophy', and ...
... philosopher. His reception has tied him to the wave of 'French' theory in 1960s, but whilst he acknowledges Derrida and uses some parts of Foucault's theories, he associated himself more closely with 'continental philosophy', and ...
Page 15
... philosophy supposes animals to be without speech and humans the speaking animal. Not so, writes Agamben, as animals are in language, whilst humans come to it gradually, acquiring it as something external to them. This discovery of ...
... philosophy supposes animals to be without speech and humans the speaking animal. Not so, writes Agamben, as animals are in language, whilst humans come to it gradually, acquiring it as something external to them. This discovery of ...
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... philosophy), whilst for the most part in his early books on language he makes extravagant claims about 'the human', 'the animal', 'language', 'science' – as if these were timeless phenomena, always and everywhere the same (the ...
... philosophy), whilst for the most part in his early books on language he makes extravagant claims about 'the human', 'the animal', 'language', 'science' – as if these were timeless phenomena, always and everywhere the same (the ...
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... Philosophy and religion have persistently identified the split between animal and human as a defining feature of what makes people human, but, says Agamben, this split occurs first within humanity. Only once humans are separate does the ...
... Philosophy and religion have persistently identified the split between animal and human as a defining feature of what makes people human, but, says Agamben, this split occurs first within humanity. Only once humans are separate does the ...
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... philosophy but also politics, ethics and jurisprudence are drawn and suspended in the difference between man and animal'.13 Agamben's take on 'the animal' is problematic. He acknowledges that in differentiating human and animal through ...
... philosophy but also politics, ethics and jurisprudence are drawn and suspended in the difference between man and animal'.13 Agamben's take on 'the animal' is problematic. He acknowledges that in differentiating human and animal through ...
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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