John Lechte

Broschiertes Buch

Violence, Image and Victim in Bataille, Agamben and Girard

Beschreibung

A study of violence and the image in the work of Bataille, Agamben and Girard, thinkers who aim to explain the basis of society and culture in the context of power and the sacred.

Autor

John Lechte is Emeritus Professor in Sociology at Macquarie University, Sydney. He is best know for his writing on French philosophers, Julia Kristeva and Georges Bataille and for his best selling Key Contemporary Thinkers (Routledge, 2006). He is co-editor of Agamben and the Politics of Human Rights: Statelessness, Images, Violence (EUP, 2015) and The Kristeva Critical Reader (EUP, 2003). His most recent book is The Human (Bloomsbury, 2020).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 310g
• ISBN-13: 9781399519786
• ISBN-10: 1399519786
• Artikelnr.: 71685506