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 14
... political 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 ...
... political 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 ...
Page 20
... political, juridical or, even, the human. In fact, society is based not on separation from nature but on its ... political society, and therefore always already inside that society. Political life is based on the possibility of ...
... political, juridical or, even, the human. In fact, society is based not on separation from nature but on its ... political society, and therefore always already inside that society. Political life is based on the possibility of ...
Page 22
... political/judicial contexts. Even 'humanitarian organizations . . . can only grasp human life in the figure of bare ... politics becomes the exception'.24 The implication is that, increasingly, humans become totally subject to rules and ...
... political/judicial contexts. Even 'humanitarian organizations . . . can only grasp human life in the figure of bare ... politics becomes the exception'.24 The implication is that, increasingly, humans become totally subject to rules and ...
Page 24
... political situations are where the apparently abstract thought of Being can be conducted – Guantanamo Bay and the 'exceptionality' of the US Patriot Act are cited early on. Agamben writes a history of the development of actual states of ...
... political situations are where the apparently abstract thought of Being can be conducted – Guantanamo Bay and the 'exceptionality' of the US Patriot Act are cited early on. Agamben writes a history of the development of actual states of ...
Page 26
... political intent here presumes we agree with his mystical theorisation of politics. This book can be read as part of a diptych with Homo Sacer: in both humans must come to nothingness and in both variants of the idea there is something ...
... political intent here presumes we agree with his mystical theorisation of politics. This book can be read as part of a diptych with Homo Sacer: in both humans must come to nothingness and in both variants of the idea there is something ...
Contents
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14 | |
2 Alain Badiou 1937 | 29 |
3 Zygmunt Bauman 1925 | 45 |
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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