This authoritative guide introduces the key figures in contemporary critical theory to the beginning student. Important topics in critical theory which are covered in this volume include semiotics and discourse analysis, deconstruction, feminism, queer theory, and postmodernism. There are individual chapters on each of the following theorists: Lacan, Althusser, Barthes, Derrida, Levinas, Kristeva, Irigaray, Cixous, Foucault, Lyotard, Deleuze and Guattari, Baudrillard, Bourdieu, Habermas, Jameson, and Said. Each chapter provides biographical information and details about the thinker's…mehr
This authoritative guide introduces the key figures in contemporary critical theory to the beginning student. Important topics in critical theory which are covered in this volume include semiotics and discourse analysis, deconstruction, feminism, queer theory, and postmodernism. There are individual chapters on each of the following theorists: Lacan, Althusser, Barthes, Derrida, Levinas, Kristeva, Irigaray, Cixous, Foucault, Lyotard, Deleuze and Guattari, Baudrillard, Bourdieu, Habermas, Jameson, and Said. Each chapter provides biographical information and details about the thinker's intellectual contexts, an explanation of key concepts, a discussion of the ways in which their theory has been applied, and suggestions for further reading. This text is designed as the perfect companion to From Kant to Lévi-Strauss: The Background to Contemporary Critical Theory, also edited by Jon Simons.
Jon Simons is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University who has broad expertise in contemporary critical theory. He is the author of Foucault and the Political (Routledge, 1995) and the editor of and contributor to From Kant to Lévi-Strauss: The Background to Contemporary Critical Theory and Contemporary Critical Theorists: From Lacan to Said (Edinburgh University Press, 2002 & 2004 respectively).
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1 Introduction by Jon Simons 2 Jacques Lacan by Yannis Stavrakakis 3 Emmanuel Levinas by Arjuna Weerasooriya 4 Louis Althusser by Steve Smith 5 Roland Barthes by Susan McManus and Andy Stafford 6 Jacques Derrida by Adam Sharman 7 Luce Irigaray by Mary Eden 8 Helene Cixous by Julia Dobson 9 Julia Kristeva by Moya Lloyd 10 Jean-Francois Lyotard by Simon Tormey 11 Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari by Philip Goodchild 12 Michel Foucault by Jon Simons 13 Jean Baudrillard by Paul Hegarty 14 Pierre Bourdieu by Cheleen Mahar and Chris Wilkes 15 Jurgen Habermas by Martin Morris 16 Fredric Jameson by Nick Heffernan 17 Edward Said by Patrick Williams
1 Introduction by Jon Simons 2 Jacques Lacan by Yannis Stavrakakis 3 Emmanuel Levinas by Arjuna Weerasooriya 4 Louis Althusser by Steve Smith 5 Roland Barthes by Susan McManus and Andy Stafford 6 Jacques Derrida by Adam Sharman 7 Luce Irigaray by Mary Eden 8 Helene Cixous by Julia Dobson 9 Julia Kristeva by Moya Lloyd 10 Jean-Francois Lyotard by Simon Tormey 11 Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari by Philip Goodchild 12 Michel Foucault by Jon Simons 13 Jean Baudrillard by Paul Hegarty 14 Pierre Bourdieu by Cheleen Mahar and Chris Wilkes 15 Jurgen Habermas by Martin Morris 16 Fredric Jameson by Nick Heffernan 17 Edward Said by Patrick Williams
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