ABSTRACT

Theory for Art History provides clear and concise introductions to thirty key figures of contemporary theory: four essential predecessors – Freud, Marx, Nietzsche, and Saussure – and twenty-six major moderns from Adorno to Spivak. This book includes key concepts, biography, survey of work, bibliography of primary texts, and a bibliography of secondary criticism.

Adapted from Theory for Religious Studies, by William E. Deal and Timothy K. Beal.

part |2 pages

Predecessors

chapter 1|12 pages

Sigmund Freud

chapter 2|10 pages

Karl Marx

chapter 3|8 pages

Friedrich Nietzsche

chapter 4|6 pages

Ferdinand de Saussure

part |2 pages

Theory for Art History

chapter 5|8 pages

Theodor W. Adorno

chapter 6|8 pages

Giorgio Agamben

chapter 7|8 pages

Louis Althusser

chapter 8|4 pages

Alain Badiou

chapter 9|10 pages

Roland Barthes

chapter 10|8 pages

Georges Bataille

chapter 11|8 pages

Jean Baudrillard

chapter 12|10 pages

Walter Benjamin

chapter 13|10 pages

Pierre Bourdieu

chapter 14|6 pages

Judith Butler

chapter 15|10 pages

Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari

chapter 16|14 pages

Jacques Derrida

chapter 17|12 pages

Michel Foucault

chapter 18|12 pages

Martin Heidegger

chapter 19|8 pages

Luce Irigaray

chapter 20|8 pages

Julia Kristeva

chapter 21|10 pages

Jacques Lacan

chapter 22|8 pages

Emmanuel Levinas

chapter 23|10 pages

Jean-François Lyotard

chapter 24|6 pages

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

chapter 25|8 pages

Edward W. Said

chapter 26|8 pages

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

part |2 pages

Afterword