From Agamben to Zizek. Contemporary Critical Theorists

This authoritative guide introduces the key figures in contemporary critical theory in a manner both accessible to the beginning student and expert enough to interest the curious scholar.

The critical theories covered in the volume includes: actor-network theory; deconstruction and post-structuralism; globalisation and postmodernity; Marxism and post-Marxism; feminism and queer theory; phenomenology; postcolonialism; psychoanalysis;science and technology studies.

There are individual chapters on: Agamben, Badiou, Bauman, Bhabha, Butler, Castoriadism Green critical theory, Haraway, Laclau and Mouffe, Latour, Negri, Spivak, Virilio and ?i?ek.

Each chapter provides biographical information and details about the thinker's intellectual context, an explanation of key concepts, an outline of the major angles of the theorist's work, an indication of ways in which their theory has been applied and criticised, as well as suggestions for further reading.

This book is designed as a companion to From Kant to Levi-Strauss: The Background to Contemporary Critical Theory and Contemporary Critical Theorists: From Lacan to Said, which are also edited by Jon Simons and published by Edinburgh University Press.

* Key FeaturesUp-to-date introduction to contemporary critical theorists
* Expert commentaries introduce and evaluate established key thinkers
* Clear explanations of terms and concepts
* Concise contextualisation and indication of trans-disciplinary relevance