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Contemporary critical theorists : from Lacan to Said
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Contemporary critical theorists : from Lacan to Said

Author: Jon Simons
Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This volume covers semiotics and discourse analysis, deconstruction, feminism, queer theory, and postmodernism. Individual chapters focus 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  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jon Simons
ISBN: 0748617191 9780748617197 0748617205 9780748617203
OCLC Number: 56338608
Description: xi, 292 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Jacques Lacan (1901-81) / Yannis Stavrakakis --
Emmanuel Levinas (1906-95) / Arjuna Weerasooriya --
Louis Althusser (1918-90) / Steve Smith --
Roland Barthes (1915-80) / Andy Stafford and Susan McManus --
Jacques Derrida (1930-) / Adam Sharman --
Luce Irigaray (1932-) / Mary Eden --
Hélène Cixous (1937-) / Julia Dobson --
Julia Kristeva (1941-) / Moya Lloyd --
Jean-François Lyotard (1924-98) / Simon Tormey --
Gilles Deleuze (1925-95) and Felix Guattari (1930-92) / Philip Goodchild --
Michel Foucault (1926-84) / Jon Simons --
Jean Baudrillard (1929-) / Paul Hegarty --
Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) / Cheleen Mahar and Christopher Wilkes --
Jürgen Habermas (1929-) / Martin Morris --
Fredric Jameson (1934-) / Nick Heffernan --
Edward Said (1935-2003) / Patrick Williams.
Other Titles: From Lacan to Said
Responsibility: edited by Jon Simons.

Abstract:

This volume covers semiotics and discourse analysis, deconstruction, feminism, queer theory, and postmodernism. Individual chapters focus 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.

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