Acknowledgments Introduction --; Part 1: Predecessors 1.1 Sigmund Freud 1.2 Karl Marx 1.3 Friedrich Nietzsche 1.4 Ferdinand de Saussure --; Part 2: The Theorists 2.1 Louis Althusser 2.2 Mikhail Bakhtin 2.3 Roland Barthes 2.4 Georges Bataille 2.5 Jean Baudrillard 2.5 Walter Benjamin 2.6 Pierre Bourdieu 2.7 Judith Butler 2.8 Helene Cixous 2.9 Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari 2.10 Jacques Derrida 2.11 Michel Foucault 2.12 Hans-Georg Gadamer 2.13 Luce Irigaray 2.14 Julia Kristeva 2.15 Jacques Lacan 2.16 Henri Lefebvre 2.17 Emmanuel Levinas 2.18 Jean-Francois Lyotard 2.19 Maurice Merleau-Ponty 2.20 Edward W. Said 2.21 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 2.22 Hayden White 2.23 Raymond Williams 2.24 Slavoj A iA ek