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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... Postmodernity and Its Discontents and others. The sea change came with Globalization and the works that followed it, especially Community, Identity and Europe – all little books, keyword studies in brief compass.2 These were examples of ...
... Postmodernity and Its Discontents and others. The sea change came with Globalization and the works that followed it, especially Community, Identity and Europe – all little books, keyword studies in brief compass.2 These were examples of ...
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... . It travels across time and space, right through to the present, to Bauman's concern with the lost postmodern souls he calls vagabonds. Even in his moment Marx understands the importance of partial 47 Zygmunt Bauman (1925–)
... . It travels across time and space, right through to the present, to Bauman's concern with the lost postmodern souls he calls vagabonds. Even in his moment Marx understands the importance of partial 47 Zygmunt Bauman (1925–)
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... postmodern, in Legislators and Interpreters). Colonisation, as Marx and Engels had anticipated earlier in The Communist Manifesto, would sooner or later expand to cover the planet. There would be nothing outside the rule of capital ...
... postmodern, in Legislators and Interpreters). Colonisation, as Marx and Engels had anticipated earlier in The Communist Manifesto, would sooner or later expand to cover the planet. There would be nothing outside the rule of capital ...
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... Postmodernity and its Discontents; Work, Consumerism and the New Poor; and Wasted Lives. So let us begin at Bauman's beginning. He had published fifteen books in his native Polish when he was himself driven into exile, like Marx, a ...
... Postmodernity and its Discontents; Work, Consumerism and the New Poor; and Wasted Lives. So let us begin at Bauman's beginning. He had published fifteen books in his native Polish when he was himself driven into exile, like Marx, a ...
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Contents
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14 | |
29 | |
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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