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 36
... truth of our decision to declare and show fidelity to an unprecedented occurrence, to a fleeting event marking the universal and generic implications of a situational impasse, proves instead disastrous if this truth only seems generic ...
... truth of our decision to declare and show fidelity to an unprecedented occurrence, to a fleeting event marking the universal and generic implications of a situational impasse, proves instead disastrous if this truth only seems generic ...
Page 37
... truth. Living in truth, being subject to the force of truth, means being open to eventuality. Committing to the French Revolution – like committing to atonal music, quantum mechanics or true love – remains tolerant with respect to ...
... truth. Living in truth, being subject to the force of truth, means being open to eventuality. Committing to the French Revolution – like committing to atonal music, quantum mechanics or true love – remains tolerant with respect to ...
Page 38
... truth – turns out to lie beyond our knowledge. While philosophers can traverse diverse knowledges, critiquing what gets inscribed in our books of 'what there is', they are, for better or worse, not initiators, but formalisers of truth ...
... truth – turns out to lie beyond our knowledge. While philosophers can traverse diverse knowledges, critiquing what gets inscribed in our books of 'what there is', they are, for better or worse, not initiators, but formalisers of truth ...
Page 39
... truth is born as a procedure of keeping alive the prospect that something new has occurred. Such events do not happen in philosophy but in love, art, science and politics – which are each what Badiou calls a 'generic procedure'.16 What ...
... truth is born as a procedure of keeping alive the prospect that something new has occurred. Such events do not happen in philosophy but in love, art, science and politics – which are each what Badiou calls a 'generic procedure'.16 What ...
Page 40
... truth by defending a single absurd statement: Christ is resurrected. The statement's force resides not in factual ... truth against all claims for the truth having been settled (death). What the force of Badiou's iconoclastic book comes ...
... truth by defending a single absurd statement: Christ is resurrected. The statement's force resides not in factual ... truth against all claims for the truth having been settled (death). What the force of Badiou's iconoclastic book comes ...
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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