The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Theory / / Stuart Sim.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Sim, Stuart,
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Bella,; Allen, Graham,; Boucher, Geoffrey,; Danesi, Marcel,; Duffy, Nikolai,; Garratt, Peter,; Genz, Stéphanie,; Goldstein, Philip,; Harding, Bruce,; Haywood, Chris,; Longstaff, Gareth,; Mac an Ghaill, Mairtin,; Nally, Claire,; Parvini, Neema,; Plotnitsky, Arkady,; Robbins, Derek M.,; Sharpe, Matthew,; Sim, Stuart,; Sweeney, Carole,; Van Den Abbeele, Georges,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (592 p.) :; 2 B/W line art

A wide-ranging reference guide to the changing role of critical theory in the twenty-first centuryFeaturing an international team of specialists on the subject, The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Theory provides a comprehensive analysis of the changing role of critical theory in the new century. Taking note of the many new theoretical and socio-political developments in recent years, the volume conclusively demonstrates critical theory's continuing relevance across disciplines ranging from the arts and social sciences through to the hard sciences. Being theoretically informed is not an optional part of study any more, it is a necessary, central part, and The Companion will bring you up to date with what is happening across the spectrum of critical theory.The volume consists of eleven sections comprising twenty-eight chapters, each covering a particular branch of critical theory from Marxism through to present-day developments. Outlining historical development as well as recent advances in each area, and the emergence of new voices, The Companion offers readers a welcome opportunity to reorient themselves within the role of critical theory in its many forms. Key featuresRanges from the Humanities & Social Sciences right through to the hard SciencesInternational dimension to the volume, with highly-experienced academic specialists from various countriesBrings critical theory right up to date with new developments like Cognitive Theory ('Cognitivism')

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Part I. Marxism -- Introduction: Marxism -- 1. Marxism: Philosophy and Social Theory -- 2. Western Marxism -- 3. Post-Marxism -- Part II. Structuralism -- Introduction: Structuralism -- 4. Structuralism and Semiotics -- 5. Genetic Structuralism -- Part III. Poststructuralism -- Introduction: Poststructuralism -- 6. Phenomenology and Poststructuralism -- 7. Deconstruction -- 8. Discourse Theory -- Part IV. Postmodernism -- Introduction: Postmodernism -- 9. Philosophical Postmodernism: From Adorno and Derrida to Foucault -- 10. Postmodern Aesthetics -- Part V. Postcolonialism -- Introduction: Postcolonialism -- 11. Postcolonial Theory and Criticism -- 12. Black Studies -- 13. Critical Race Theory -- Part VI. Gender -- Introduction: Gender -- 14. Queer Theory -- 15. Men, Masculinity and Critical Studies -- Part VII. Feminism -- Introduction: Feminism -- 16. First and Second Wave Feminism -- 17. After de Beauvoir: ‘French’ Feminism and Sexual Difference -- 18. Postfeminism -- Part VIII. Historicism -- Introduction: Historicism -- 19. Reception and Reader-Response Theory -- 20. New Historicism -- 21. Cultural Materialism -- Part IX. Formalism -- Introduction: Formalism -- 22. Russian Formalism and Narratology -- 23. New Criticism -- Part X. Science and Critical Theory -- Introduction: Science and Critical Theory -- 24. Critical Theory and Paradigm Shift -- 25. Critical Theory and Mathematics and Science -- 26. Cognitive Science and Critical Theory -- XI: Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory Introduction: Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory -- 27. Freudian Psychoanalysis -- 28. Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index