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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... theoretical radicalism, as for Eagleton the theory that Bové advocates betrayed its debt to its dialogue with Western Marxism by becoming not so much post- Marxist as post- political. Yet they both ascribe critical theory's decline to ...
... theoretical radicalism, as for Eagleton the theory that Bové advocates betrayed its debt to its dialogue with Western Marxism by becoming not so much post- Marxist as post- political. Yet they both ascribe critical theory's decline to ...
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... theoretical' universe is not 'a- theoretical'.18 In another volume whose title appears to herald a post- theoretical turn in film studies, the editors clarify that they mean only the end of 'Grand Theory', demanding that the theorists ...
... theoretical' universe is not 'a- theoretical'.18 In another volume whose title appears to herald a post- theoretical turn in film studies, the editors clarify that they mean only the end of 'Grand Theory', demanding that the theorists ...
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... theoretical' when the world is no longer characterised by globalised oppression, injustice, inequality and environmental destruction. Notes 1. Jon Simons (ed.), Contemporary Critical Theorists: From Lacan to Said (Edinburgh: Edinburgh ...
... theoretical' when the world is no longer characterised by globalised oppression, injustice, inequality and environmental destruction. Notes 1. Jon Simons (ed.), Contemporary Critical Theorists: From Lacan to Said (Edinburgh: Edinburgh ...
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... theoretical writings: '[W]hy unsayable? Why confer on extermination the prestige of the mystical?'26 As is often the case, Agamben does not do justice to the position he criticises, adopting a position much like one he earlier misread ...
... theoretical writings: '[W]hy unsayable? Why confer on extermination the prestige of the mystical?'26 As is often the case, Agamben does not do justice to the position he criticises, adopting a position much like one he earlier misread ...
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... theoretical return to the political that, allegedly, theory somehow forgot. In combining a thoroughgoing critique of biopolitical institutions and a phenomenological 'deconstruction' of being at both individual and cultural level, his ...
... theoretical return to the political that, allegedly, theory somehow forgot. In combining a thoroughgoing critique of biopolitical institutions and a phenomenological 'deconstruction' of being at both individual and cultural level, his ...
Contents
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14 | |
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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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