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CRITICAL THEORY
3 ' DOUGLAS TALLACK


Now that Critical Theory hás established itself as a field of study within Humanities and Social Science degree programmes, the time has come to represent new and previously overlooked directions in conjunction with the műre cahonic texts. , \'
Critical Theory: A Reader brings together texts by theorists whose work has become central to this metadiscipline, among them Barthes, Derrida.'Kristeva, Foucault, Lacan, Irigaray, Lévinas, Cixous; Althusser, Lyotard and Adorno. In addition, fifty years after the' publication of Lacan and Benjamin's seminal essays, and almost thirty years after the publication of Derrida's three books, this volume provides the opportunity to focus on the most recent developments in Critical Theory with extracts from the works of, among others, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Seyla Benhabib, Richard Rorty, Carol Gilligan, Monique Wittig and Martha Nussbaum. Possibilities for further enquiry and speculation are... Tovább

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CRITICAL THEORY
3 ' DOUGLAS TALLACK


Now that Critical Theory hás established itself as a field of study within Humanities and Social Science degree programmes, the time has come to represent new and previously overlooked directions in conjunction with the műre cahonic texts. , \'
Critical Theory: A Reader brings together texts by theorists whose work has become central to this metadiscipline, among them Barthes, Derrida.'Kristeva, Foucault, Lacan, Irigaray, Lévinas, Cixous; Althusser, Lyotard and Adorno. In addition, fifty years after the' publication of Lacan and Benjamin's seminal essays, and almost thirty years after the publication of Derrida's three books, this volume provides the opportunity to focus on the most recent developments in Critical Theory with extracts from the works of, among others, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Seyla Benhabib, Richard Rorty, Carol Gilligan, Monique Wittig and Martha Nussbaum. Possibilities for further enquiry and speculation are also explored by positioning theorists such that the interdisciplinary nature of existing categories of theory become apparent, revealing the supporting and antagonistic relationships which define and redefine the field of Critical Theory.
Indispensable as a text, this Reader includes useful explanatory and reference material such as: U'a general introduction mapping the field of Critical Theory
? section introductions tracing the arguments that provide structure for the subdivisions of Critical Theory
? an extensive bibliography
Douglas Tallack is Professor of American Studies and a former Head of the Postgraduate School of Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham, England. He is the author of The Nineteenth-Century American Short Story: Language, Form and Ideology (1993) and Twentieth-Century America: The Intellectual and Cultural Context (1991) and editor of Literary Theory at Work: Three Texts {\ 987). ¦ ' . . ¦ Vissza