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 8
... thinkers such as Jean-Luc Nancy, partly on the grounds of Rancière's great trans-disciplinary impact. Without chapters on figures such as Axel Honneth or Seyla Benhabib, it might seem mistakenly as if the postFrankfurt School work of ...
... thinkers such as Jean-Luc Nancy, partly on the grounds of Rancière's great trans-disciplinary impact. Without chapters on figures such as Axel Honneth or Seyla Benhabib, it might seem mistakenly as if the postFrankfurt School work of ...
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... thinkers to theorise our existence as embodied creatures within our environment; Haraway to theorise the relation between techno-scientific knowledge and the violence of warmaking, global capitalism and environmental destruction; Laclau ...
... thinkers to theorise our existence as embodied creatures within our environment; Haraway to theorise the relation between techno-scientific knowledge and the violence of warmaking, global capitalism and environmental destruction; Laclau ...
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... thinkers, he demonstrates a different set of loves – of truth, universalism, the subject, fidelity and mathematics; and holds a different set of antipathies – to postmodern celebration of irony and consumption, multicultural identity ...
... thinkers, he demonstrates a different set of loves – of truth, universalism, the subject, fidelity and mathematics; and holds a different set of antipathies – to postmodern celebration of irony and consumption, multicultural identity ...
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... thinker – and activist – needs to defend and which to let scatter like dust in the face of new truths, truths that are not the property of philosophy but available to all who carefully heed them. Notes 1. Alain Badiou, 'The Adventure of ...
... thinker – and activist – needs to defend and which to let scatter like dust in the face of new truths, truths that are not the property of philosophy but available to all who carefully heed them. Notes 1. Alain Badiou, 'The Adventure of ...
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... of Philosophy (London: Continuum, 2004). Responses to Badiou's work by leading contemporary thinkers from Slavoj Žižek to Ernesto Laclau. Zygmunt Bauman (1925–) Peter Beilharz Zygmunt Bauman has an intriguing 44 Benjamin Robinson.
... of Philosophy (London: Continuum, 2004). Responses to Badiou's work by leading contemporary thinkers from Slavoj Žižek to Ernesto Laclau. Zygmunt Bauman (1925–) Peter Beilharz Zygmunt Bauman has an intriguing 44 Benjamin Robinson.
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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