The Routledge critical and cultural theory reader /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Neil Badmington and Julia Thomas.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Routledge,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2008.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xii, 452 pages :
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illustrations ;
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26 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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1. Preface to a 'Contribution to the critique of political economy' / Karl Marx (1859) -- 2. A note on the unconscious in psychoanalysis / Sigmund Freud (1912) -- 3. Linguistic value / Ferdinand de Saussure (1916) -- 4. Womanliness as a masquerade / Joan Riviere (1929) -- 5. The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction / Walter Benjamin (1936) -- 6. The mirror stage as formative of the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience / Jacques Lacan (1949) -- 7. The fact of blackness / Frantz Fanon (1952) -- 8. Culture is ordinary / Raymond Williams (1958) -- 9. The social text / Henri Lefebvre (1961) -- 10. The burden of history / Hayden White (1966) -- 11. The death of the author / Roland Barthes (1968) -- 12. Differance / Jacques Derrida (1968) -- 13. Walking in the city / Michel de Certeau (1974) -- 14. What is a minor literature? / Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (1975) -- 15. Panopticism / Michel Foucault (1975) -- 16. Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey (1975) -- 17. Introduction to 'Orientalism' / Edward Said (1978) -- 18. Encoding/decoding / Stuart Hall (1980) -- 19. Approaching abjection / Julia Kristeva (1980) -- 20. Simulacra and science fiction / Jean Baudrillard (1981) -- 21. Answer to the question: What is the postmodern? / Jean-François Lyotard (1982) -- 22. Thinking sex: notes towards a radical theory of the politics of sexuality / Gayle Rubin (1984) -- 23. A manifesto for cyborgs: science, technology, and socialist feminism in the 1980s / Donna J. Haraway (1985) -- 24. How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldúa -- 25. Imitation and gender insubordination / Judith Butler (1991) -- 26. Under western eyes: feminist scholarship and colonial discourses / Chandra Talpade Mohanty (1991) -- 27. Introduction to 'Homo sacer: sovereign power and bare life' / Giorgio Agamben (1995) -- 28. What does queer theory teach us about x? / Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner (1995) -- 29. Who owns "human nature"? / Marjorie Garber (2003).
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Brings together 29 key pieces that have shaped the field of critical and cultural theory. This title includes topics such as: subjectivity, language, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, the body, the human, class, culture, everyday life, literature, psychoanalysis, technology, power, and visuality.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Critical theory.
Culture.
Culture.
Theorie critique.
08.25 contemporary western philosophy (20th and 21th century)
70.02 philosophy and theory of the social sciences.