Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory

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1. Roland Barthes

   Edited by Neil Badmington

   Series: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory

   Thirty years ago the English-speaking world was discovering the work of some of the key poststructuralist theorists for the first time: Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology had just appeared in translation, as had Roland Barthes’ S/Z, Jacques Lacan’s Écrits, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s...

   Published December 14th 2009 by Routledge
2. French Feminists

   Edited by Jennifer Hansen, Ann Cahill

   Series: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory

   Although at times criticized for its philosophical density, French cultural theory remains a flourishing, if highly contested, area of academic study. Four feminist thinkers in this tradition continue to be especially prominent: Simone de Beauvoir, Julia Kristeva, Hélène Cixous, and Luce Irigaray....

   Published November 25th 2007 by Routledge
3. Theodor Adorno

   Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory

   Edited by Simon Jarvis

   Series: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory

   Theodor Adorno was a German philosopher, sociologist and musicologist and was a leading member and eventually director of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research. Adorno studied an extraordinary range of subjects during his lifetime – from dialectical logic and the syntax of poetry to...

   Published November 29th 2006 by Routledge
4. Jean-François Lyotard

   Edited by Gregg Lambert, Victor E. Taylor

   Series: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory

   Jean-François Lyotard's importance to modern philosophy cannot be overstated. Often associated with the concept of postmodernism, Lyotard was a central figure in the 'theory debates' during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. His writings across the disciplines strongly influenced the current shape of...

   Published December 21st 2005 by Routledge
5. Marshall McLuhan

   Edited by Gary Genosko

   Series: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory

   This collection contains key critical essays and assessments of the writings of Canadian communications thinker Marshall McLuhan selected from the voluminous output of the past forty years. McLuhan's famous aphorisms and uncanny ability to sense megatrends are once again in circulation across and...

   Published December 16th 2004 by Routledge
6. Walter Benjamin:Critical Evaluations 3V

   Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory

   Edited by Peter Osborne

   Series: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory

   No other single author has so commanding a critical presence across so many disciplines within the arts and humanities, in so many national contexts, as Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). The belated reception of his work as a literary critic (dating from the late 1950s) has been followed by a rapid...

   Published November 24th 2004 by Routledge
7. Jacques Lacan

   Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory

   Edited by Slavoj Zizek

   Series: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory

   Jacques Lacan (1901-1980) is undoubtedly the central figure of psychoanalysis in the second half of the 20th century. He not only revolutionized the psychoanalytic practice, but in his 'return to Freud', he also deployed a global reinterpretation of the entire structural linguistics and...

   Published December 4th 2002 by Routledge