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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... political and cultural theory, their debt to more groundbreaking post-structuralist theorists such as Derrida and ... politics for the New Left. Negri's Spinozist autonomist Marxism mingled with Foucault's biopolitics and Deleuze's ...
... political and cultural theory, their debt to more groundbreaking post-structuralist theorists such as Derrida and ... politics for the New Left. Negri's Spinozist autonomist Marxism mingled with Foucault's biopolitics and Deleuze's ...
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... political 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 ...
... political 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 ...
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... political praxis and the radicality of Theory might not be of the same order', at least two contexts need to be borne in mind simultaneously, the immediate institutional academic one and the more general political, social context in ...
... political praxis and the radicality of Theory might not be of the same order', at least two contexts need to be borne in mind simultaneously, the immediate institutional academic one and the more general political, social context in ...
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... political struggle'. Theory is the resultant 'critical selfreflection' of the humanities which had broken with their complicity with social authority. But the political radicality of the 1960s met with only partial success, whereas in ...
... political struggle'. Theory is the resultant 'critical selfreflection' of the humanities which had broken with their complicity with social authority. But the political radicality of the 1960s met with only partial success, whereas in ...
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... political processes that are the main target of contemporary critical theorists. Critical theory, with or without a capital 'T', will continue to replenish itself as it challenges different academic, cultural and political ...
... political processes that are the main target of contemporary critical theorists. Critical theory, with or without a capital 'T', will continue to replenish itself as it challenges different academic, cultural and political ...
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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