Edinburgh Companion To Poststructuralism

Author : Benoit Dillet
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748653694
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Poststructuralism written by Benoit Dillet and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by experts in their field, this Companion surveys the challenges and provocations raised by the major voices of poststructuralism: Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Cixous, Lyotard, Guattari, Kristeva, Irigaray, Barthes and Baudrillard. Thematically organised and clearly written, it will guide students and researchers in philosophy, literature, art, geography, politics, sociology, law, film, and cultural studies around the nature and contemporary relevance of poststructuralism.

Author : Sim Stuart Sim
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748693416
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Critical Theory written by Sim Stuart Sim and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-10 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring 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 such as Cognitive Theory. Every chapter considers the historical development of the theory in question, explaining the main concepts and thinkers involved, before proceeding to assess where it stands in relation to current academic and socio-political concerns and debates. Outlining recent advances in each area, and the emergence of new voices, The Companion offers readers a welcome opportunity to reorient themselves within the history and role of critical theory in its many forms.

Author : Stuart Sim
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748693408
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Critical Theory written by Stuart Sim and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-10 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring 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 such as Cognitive Theory. Every chapter considers the historical development of the theory in question, explaining the main concepts and thinkers involved, before proceeding to assess where it stands in relation to current academic and socio-political concerns and debates. Outlining recent advances in each area, and the emergence of new voices, The Companion offers readers a welcome opportunity to reorient themselves within the history and role of critical theory in its many forms.

Author : Rae Gavin Rae
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474459374
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poststructuralist Agency written by Rae Gavin Rae and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gavin Rae shows that the problematic status of agency caused by the poststructuralist decentring of the subject is a central concern for poststructuralist thinkers. First, Rae shows how this plays out in the thinking of Deleuze, Derrida and Foucault. He then demonstrates that it is with those poststructuralists associated with and influenced by Lacanian psychoanalysis that this issue most clearly comes to the fore. He goes on to reveal that the conceptual schema of Cornelius Castoriadis best explains how the founded subject is capable of agency.

Author : Amartya Mukhopadhyay
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000982041
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postpositivist International Relations Theory written by Amartya Mukhopadhyay and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses postpositivist theories foregrounding postpositivism against the reigning realist and positivist-pluralist orthodoxies. The book explicates seven theories, not as disparate endeavours, but as developments linked by a common thread that seeks to enunciate globalist emancipatory goals for the theoretical field and the world that these theories seek to change. It focuses on the following themes: feminism, environmentalism or green theory, the English school, critical theory, constructivism, postmodernism and postcolonialism. Additionally, a separate chapter on globalization shows that while mainstream (neo)realist international relations theories respond hostilely to globalization and liberal-pluralist theories react benignly to it, postpositivist theories positively welcome it. The book offers a competent meta-theoretical gridwork, showing on which side of the opposing disciplinary positions in the fourth debate each of the seven theories are located. It is a comprehensive guide to the postpositivist restructuring of the discipline of international relations. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of political science, international relations, history, humanities and literature.

Author : Alan Finlayson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474468217
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and Post-Structuralism written by Alan Finlayson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-structuralism is recognised as a major force within literary and cultural studies. This book is the first to apply the theory to politics and to show the ways in which it can illuminate political theory and analysis. As such it is likely to become a key text in the development of this area, providing a stimulating introduction to the subject. Authors explore the two-way relationship, showing not only that post-structuralism can enhance the study of politics, but also that advocates of post-structuralism can benefit from being open to the lessons political studies can teach. The book aims to* Clarify the relationship of contemporary theory to politics* Open up a new intellectual interface* Create a space for exchange between disciplines* Provide a statement of the role of post-structuralist theory in politicsCovering three main sections - What is Post-structuralist Political Theory?; Post-structuralism and Political Analysis; and The Question of the Political - the authors draw on themes raised by Continental thinkers such as Derrida, Nancy and Deleuze, and Anglo-American thinkers such as Butler and Connolly in their questioning of the theoretical and empirical understanding of contemporary politics.Key Features:* First systematic examination of post-structuralism to see what it may mean for political studies* Advances its own rigorous and theoretically informed position* Cutting edge: provides a vibrant introduction to this area of political thought and analysis* Brings clarity to the two-way relationship between post-structuralism and politics

Author : Matt McGuire
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748636277
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Poetry written by Matt McGuire and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last three decades have seen unprecedented flourishing of creativity across the Scottish literary landscape, so that contemporary Scottish poetry constitutes an internationally renowned, award-winning body of work. At the heart of this has been the work of poets. As this poetry makes space for its own innovative concerns, it renegotiates the poetic inheritance of preceding generations. At the same time, Scottish poetry continues to be animated by writing from other places. The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Poetry is the definitive guide to this flourishing poetic scene. Its chapters examine Scottish poetry in all three of the nation's languages. It analyses many thematic preoccupations: tradition and innovation; revolutions in gender; the importance of place; the aesthetic politics of devolution. These chapters are complemented by extended close readings of the work of key poets that have defined this era, including Edwin Morgan, Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson, Aonghas MacNeacail and John Burnside.

Author : David Bates
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317531485
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marxism, Religion and Ideology written by David Bates and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As austerity measures are put into place the world over and global restructuring is acknowledged by all as an attempt to bolster the economic system that lead to the crash, there is a great need to come to grips with the economic, political and philosophical legacy of Marx. Of particular interest are Marx’s analyses of alienation and the cycles of boom and bust thought to be integral to the functioning of capitalism. Moreover, as the Cold War drifts into the history books, it is possible to reconsider the lasting impact of Marx’s analyses without the shadows cast by the Soviet version of communism. Equally, though, scholars are increasingly turning to Marx for insight into the rise of religion and the corresponding demise of political ideologies that seems to mark the contemporary age. Are we witnessing ‘the return of Marx’? Few scholars have done as much to tease out the intricacies of Marx, ideology and religion and their overlapping concerns as the eminent writer and Marx biographer, Professor David McLellan. This book brings together a group of internationally renowned academics to reflect upon, develop and criticise McLellan’s analyses of these three themes with a view to contributing more broadly to scholarly debates in these fields. This exciting and timely analysis will be of interest to scholars of political theory, the history of political thought (including historical methodology), Marx and Marxism, sociology of knowledge (particularly in relation to discussions of ideology), religion and theology more widely.

Author : Aaron Pinnix
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 383946983X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Infrastructure Across the Humanities written by Aaron Pinnix and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infrastructure comprises a combination of sociotechnical, political, and cultural arrangements that provide resources and services. The contributors to this volume show, in their respective fields, how infrastructures are both generative forces and the materialized products of quotidian practices that affect and guide people's lives. Organized via shared conceptual foci, this volume demonstrates infrastructuralist perspectives as an important transdisciplinary approach within the humanities.

Author : Constantin V. Boundas
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748629297
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Philosophies written by Constantin V. Boundas and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-19 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Companion is organized into two sections, each one of which reflects the developments of the Anglo-American Analytic and the Continental European philosophical traditions respectively. An appendix presents the main accomplishments of non-Western philosophies in the same time frame. Each section discusses the main movements and fields of the discipline throughout the century. The authors have maintained a balance between the historian's commitment to breadth and accuracy with the commitment of the systematic philosopher to the engaged point of view and to critical reflection. The result is a distinctive reference book made up of a series of philosophical studies -an invaluable companion to anyone who is searching for a panoramic but also reliable and challenging presentation of the philosophical ideas which shaped the last century.