Contemporary Critical Theorists : : From Lacan to Said / / Jon Simons.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Simons, Jon,
• MitwirkendeR: Dobson, Julia,; Eden, Mary,; Goodchild, Philip,; Heffernan, Nick,; Hegarty, Paul,; Lloyd, Maya,; Mahar, Cheleen,; McManus, Susan,; Morris, Martin,; Sharman, Adam,; Simons, Jon,; Smith, Steve,; Stafford, Andy,; Stavrakakis, Yannis,; Tormey, Simon,; Weerasooriya, Arjuna,; Wilkes, Christopher,; Williams, Patrick,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Notes on Contributors --; 1 Introduction --; 2 Jacques Lacan ( 1901-81) --; 3 Emmanuel Levinas (1906-95) --; 4 Louis Althusser (1918-90) --; 5 Roland Barthes ( 1915-80) --; 6 Jacques Derrida (1930-) --; 7 Luce Irigaray ( 1932-) --; 8 Hélène Cixous (1937-) --; 9 Julia Kristeva (1941-) --; 10 Jean-François Lyotard (1924-98) --; 11 Gilles De leuze ( 1925-95) and Felix Guattari (1930-92) --; 12 Michel Foucault (1926-84) --; 13 Jean Baudrillard ( 1929-) --; 14 Pierre Bourdieu ( 1930-2002) --; 15 Jürgen Habermas ( 1929-) --; 16 Fredric Jameson (1934-) --; 17 Edward Said (1935-2003) --; Names Index --; Subject Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474472623; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474472623
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jon Simons.

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.