ABSTRACT
This revised second edition from our bestselling Key Guides includes brand new entries on some of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth- and twenty-first century: Zizek, Bergson, Husserl, Heidegger, Butler and Haraway.
With a new introduction by the author, 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 resource to contemporary critical thought for undergraduates and the interested reader.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |22 pages
Early Structuralism
chapter |8 pages
Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962)
chapter |8 pages
Mikhail Bakhtin (1895–1975)
chapter |6 pages
Marcel Mauss (1872–1950)
part |33 pages
Phenomenology
chapter |10 pages
Martin Heidegger (1889–1976)
chapter |8 pages
Edmund Husserl (1859–1938)
chapter |7 pages
Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995)
chapter |7 pages
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961)
part |70 pages
Structuralism
chapter |6 pages
Emile Benveniste (1902–1976)
chapter |7 pages
Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002)
chapter |8 pages
Noam Chomsky (b.1928)
chapter |7 pages
Georges Dumézil (1898–1986)
chapter |7 pages
Gérard Genette (b.1930)
chapter |8 pages
Roman Jakobson (1896–1982)
chapter |9 pages
Jacques Lacan (1901–1981)
chapter |9 pages
Claude Lévi-strauss (B. 1908)
chapter |8 pages
Christian Metz (1931–1993)
part |18 pages
Post-Structuralist Thought
chapter |8 pages
Jacques Derrida (1930–2004)
chapter |9 pages
Michel Foucault (1926–1984)
part |38 pages
Semiotics
chapter |9 pages
Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
chapter |7 pages
Umberto Eco (b.1932)
chapter |7 pages
Louis Hjelmslev (1899–1965)
chapter |6 pages
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)
chapter |8 pages
Ferdinand De Saussure (1857–1913)
part |22 pages
Second-Generation Feminism
chapter |6 pages
Judith Butler (b.1956)
chapter |8 pages
Luce Irigaray (b.1930)
chapter |7 pages
Michèle Le Doeuff (b. 1948)
part |54 pages
Post-Marxism
chapter |9 pages
Giorgio Agamben (b.1942)
chapter |9 pages
Theodor Adorno (1903–1969)
chapter |8 pages
Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
chapter |8 pages
Alain Badiou (b. 1937)
chapter |9 pages
Jürgen Habermas (b. 1929)
chapter |10 pages
Slavoj žižek (b. 1949)
part |39 pages
Modernity/Modernism
chapter |9 pages
Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)
chapter |8 pages
Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003)
chapter |8 pages
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
chapter |7 pages
James Joyce (1882–1941)
chapter |7 pages
Philippe Sollers (b.1936)
part |33 pages
Post-Modernity/Post-Modernism
chapter |8 pages
Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007)
chapter |7 pages
Marguerite Duras (1914–1996)
chapter |7 pages
Franz Kafka (1883–1924)
chapter |10 pages
Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998)
part |32 pages
Post-Human Thought
chapter |6 pages
Donna Haraway (b.1944)
chapter |6 pages
Humberto Maturana (b.1928)
chapter |9 pages
Michel Serres (b.1930)
chapter |10 pages
Paulvirilio (b.1932)
part |41 pages
Vitalist-Inspired Thought