
Contemporary Critical Theorists
From Lacan to Said
Jon Simons(Editor)
Edinburgh University Press
Published on 15. June 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-0-7486-1720-3 (ISBN)
Description
This authoritative guide introduces the key figures in contemporary critical theory for the beginning student. The critical theory covered in the volume includes: semiotics and discourse analysis; structuralism and post-structuralism; ideology critique; deconstruction; feminism; queer theory; psychoanalysis; postcolonialism; postmodernism; and the descendents of Frankfurt School Critical Theory. There are individual chapters on: Lacan; Althusser; Barthes; Derrida; Levinas; Kristeva; Irigaray; Cixous; Foucault; Lyotard; Deleuze; Baudrillard; and Guattari; Bourdieu; Habermas; Jameson; and Said. Each chapter provides biographical information and details about the thinker's intellectual context, an explanation of key concepts, an outline of the major angles of the theorist's work, an indication of ways in which their theory has been applied and suggestions for further reading. This text is designed as a companion to "From Kant to Levi-Strauss: The Background to Contemporary Critical Theory", which is also edited by Jon Simons and published by Edinburgh University Press.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 169 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7486-1720-3 (9780748617203)
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Person
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 Levi-Strauss: The Background to Contemporary Critical Theory and Contemporary Critical Theorists: From Lacan to Said (Edinburgh University Press, 2002 & 2004 respectively).
Editor
Associate Professor, Department of Communication and CultureIndiana University, Bloomington
Content
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