Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers
From Structuralism to Postmodernity
Published on 21. August 2006
264 pages
978-1-134-90562-1 (ISBN)
Description
Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers surveys the most important figures who have influenced post-war thought. The reader is guided through structuralism, semiotics, post-Marxism and Annales history, on to modernity and postmodernity. With its comprehensive biographical and bibliographical information, this book provides a vital reference work of the last fifty years.
Reviews / Votes
'If you don't know your Deleuze from your Derrida, or your Bataille from your Bourdieu, or your Lacan from your Lyotard - or indeed if you're still catching up on Benjamin, Mauss, Adorno, and Saussure - then this is the book for you.' - Richard Gott, The Guardian'This is exceptional - a marvellous achievement and a notable reference source-book with entries which are lucid, sharp, lively, scholarly and critically engaged' - Dr Keith Ansell-Pearson, University of Warwick
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-1-134-90562-1 (9781134905621)
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10/1994
Routledge
€102.93
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10/1994
Routledge
€39.80
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Person
John Lechte, a former student of Julia Kristeva, teaches social theory at Macquarie University, Australia. He has taught and published widely on many aspects of modern thought and culture.
