Contemporary critical theorists : from Lacan to Said / edited by Jon Simons.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Simons, Jon, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical theory.

Philosophers, Modern.

Physical Description:

xi, 292 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

From Lacan to Said

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2004]

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0748617191

0748617205

OCLC:

56338608