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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... thinking: how is it that something infinitely multiple, the event, comes to be out of no one thing? Whether Badiou intends it or not, for those first working through his arguments, his thinking here might look disturbingly similar 32 ...
... thinking: how is it that something infinitely multiple, the event, comes to be out of no one thing? Whether Badiou intends it or not, for those first working through his arguments, his thinking here might look disturbingly similar 32 ...
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Jon Simons. through his arguments, his thinking here might look disturbingly similar to the romantic belief in the creative genius, the fascist belief in the organic leader, and the ultra-left belief in revolutionary decisionism.8 It ...
Jon Simons. through his arguments, his thinking here might look disturbingly similar to the romantic belief in the creative genius, the fascist belief in the organic leader, and the ultra-left belief in revolutionary decisionism.8 It ...
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... thinking in the most generic and generative possibilities of ordering and multiplicity, is demanding. Despite Badiou's protestations that his mathematics is elementary, there is no use denying the effort required to leap from ...
... thinking in the most generic and generative possibilities of ordering and multiplicity, is demanding. Despite Badiou's protestations that his mathematics is elementary, there is no use denying the effort required to leap from ...
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... thinking of his reader as someone (like me) who would read his entire output serially, awaiting each instalment in a personal scholarly trajectory. His new imaginary reader was rather the strap hanger who might read one book, and next ...
... thinking of his reader as someone (like me) who would read his entire output serially, awaiting each instalment in a personal scholarly trajectory. His new imaginary reader was rather the strap hanger who might read one book, and next ...
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Contents
1 | |
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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