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Fifty key contemporary thinkers : from structuralism to postmodernity

Author: John Lechte
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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In this book, John Lechte focuses both on the development of structuralist theory and on key thinkers opposed to this tendency. It is, for both the specialist and the general reader, an indispensable reference book on this century's most important intellectual revolution. In each of the fifty entries, John Lechte skilfully illuminates complex thought with unusual clarity. He also provides complete biographical  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Lechte
ISBN: 0415057272 9780415057271 0415074088 9780415074087
OCLC Number: 29703689
Description: xi, 251 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Early Structuralism ---
2. Structuralism ---
3. Structural History ---
4. Post-Structuralist Thought ---
5. Semiotics ---
6. Second Generation Feminism ---
7. Post-marxism ---
8. Modernity ---
9. Postmodernity
Other Titles: From structuralism to postmodernity
Responsibility: John Lechte.
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In this book, John Lechte focuses both on the development of structuralist theory and on key thinkers opposed to this tendency. It is, for both the specialist and the general reader, an indispensable reference book on this century's most important intellectual revolution. In each of the fifty entries, John Lechte skilfully illuminates complex thought with unusual clarity. He also provides complete biographical information and suggestions for further reading. From early structuralism, Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers guides us through post-structuralism, semiotics, post-Marxism, Annales history, on to modernity and post-modernity. It includes chapters on Bahktin, Freud, Bourdieu, Chomsky, Derrida, Lacan, Kristeva, Saussure, Irigaray and Kafka among others. Literary figures who have changed the way language is conceived are considered, together with philosophers, linguists, social theorists, feminists and historians. Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers shows that thought in the twentieth century emphasises the relational dimension of existence rather than an essential dimension. This kind of thought leads on to nihilism, but also to the point where nihilism might be overcome.

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