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 22
... relation to language as a limit condition is in play, as he focuses on the figure of the Muselmann (muslim) – the prisoner who gives up and seems to be living a minimal animal existence, bereft of humanity. The Muselmann is the true ...
... relation to language as a limit condition is in play, as he focuses on the figure of the Muselmann (muslim) – the prisoner who gives up and seems to be living a minimal animal existence, bereft of humanity. The Muselmann is the true ...
Page 32
... relationship of his guiding concepts to 'the discourse of being as being' (namely, ontology, which for Badiou is mathematics), Being and Event invites a reader to think about how philosophy has positioned itself with respect to two ...
... relationship of his guiding concepts to 'the discourse of being as being' (namely, ontology, which for Badiou is mathematics), Being and Event invites a reader to think about how philosophy has positioned itself with respect to two ...
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... relationship of the event to the persons who proclaim fidelity to its universality is, as we shall see, crucial to ... relation; in short, subtracted of all attributes, they gain their force by being generic, universal and actual ...
... relationship of the event to the persons who proclaim fidelity to its universality is, as we shall see, crucial to ... relation; in short, subtracted of all attributes, they gain their force by being generic, universal and actual ...
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... relations transforming (but not destroying) the situation from which it arose. What maintains this multiplicity in its truth, however, is that it is never imagined as the one that henceforth plugs up the void. Its infinity relates to ...
... relations transforming (but not destroying) the situation from which it arose. What maintains this multiplicity in its truth, however, is that it is never imagined as the one that henceforth plugs up the void. Its infinity relates to ...
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... relations the state proffers for managing politics. Badiou, '“We Need a Popular Discipline”', pp. 652–3. 9. Badiou, Being and Event, p. 180. 10. Badiou discusses 'the Schönberg- event' in 'A Musical Variant of the Metaphysics of the ...
... relations the state proffers for managing politics. Badiou, '“We Need a Popular Discipline”', pp. 652–3. 9. Badiou, Being and Event, p. 180. 10. Badiou discusses 'the Schönberg- event' in 'A Musical Variant of the Metaphysics of the ...
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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