Fifty key contemporary thinkers John Lechte

By:

Lechte, John [author]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Routledge key guidesPublication details: Newyork ; London : Routledge, 2017Edition: 2nd edition (Special Indian Edition)Description: xxiii, 435 pages ; 23 cmISBN:

9780415791847

Other title:

50 key contemporary thinkers

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DDC classification:

22 190.904 L495F-2

Contents:

Early structuralism. Bachelard ; Bakhtin ; Mauss -- Phenomenology. Heidegger ; Husserl ; Levinas ; Merleau-Ponty -- Structuralislm. Benveniste ; Bourdieu ; Chomsky ; Dumézil ; Genette ; Jakobson ; Lacan ; Lévi-Strauss ; Metz -- Post-structuralist thought. Derrida ; Foucault ; Semiotics ; Barthes ; Eco ; Hjelmslev ; Peirce ; Saussure -- Second-generation feminism. Butler ; Irigaray ; Le Doeuff -- Post-Marxism. Agamben ; Adorno ; Arendt ; Badiou ; Habermas ; Žižek -- Modernity. Benjamin ; Blanchot ; Nietzsche ; Joyce ; Sollers -- Post-modernity. Baudrillard ; Duras ; Kafka ; Lyotard -- The post-human. Haraway ; Maturana ; Serres ; Virilio -- Vitalist-inspired thought. Bataille ; Bergson ; Deleuze ; Freud ; Kristeva.

Summary: Now in its second edition the Key Guide surveys the most influential thinkers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. With a new introduction by the author as well as two new sections on Phenomenology and the Post-Human, full cross referencing and up-to-date guides to major primary and secondary texts, this is an essential read for anyone interested in the thinking that drives today's world. Students and general readers alike will be pleased to find such an accessible guide to some of the most hard-to-grasp ideas around.

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Early structuralism. Bachelard ; Bakhtin ; Mauss --
Phenomenology. Heidegger ; Husserl ; Levinas ; Merleau-Ponty --
Structuralislm. Benveniste ; Bourdieu ; Chomsky ; Dumézil ; Genette ; Jakobson ; Lacan ; Lévi-Strauss ; Metz --
Post-structuralist thought. Derrida ; Foucault ; Semiotics ; Barthes ; Eco ; Hjelmslev ; Peirce ; Saussure --
Second-generation feminism. Butler ; Irigaray ; Le Doeuff --
Post-Marxism. Agamben ; Adorno ; Arendt ; Badiou ; Habermas ; Žižek --
Modernity. Benjamin ; Blanchot ; Nietzsche ; Joyce ; Sollers --
Post-modernity. Baudrillard ; Duras ; Kafka ; Lyotard --
The post-human. Haraway ; Maturana ; Serres ; Virilio --
Vitalist-inspired thought. Bataille ; Bergson ; Deleuze ; Freud ; Kristeva.

Now in its second edition the Key Guide surveys the most influential thinkers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. With a new introduction by the author as well as two new sections on Phenomenology and the Post-Human, full cross referencing and up-to-date guides to major primary and secondary texts, this is an essential read for anyone interested in the thinking that drives today's world. Students and general readers alike will be pleased to find such an accessible guide to some of the most hard-to-grasp ideas around.

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