ISBN:
9781317514305
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (401 pages)
Series Statement:
Routledge key guides
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Critical Theory: The Key Concepts
DDC:
142
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Wörterbuch
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Kritische Theorie
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Kulturtheorie
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Literaturtheorie
Abstract:
Critical Theory: The Key Concepts introduces over 300 widely-used terms, categories and ideas drawing upon well-established approaches like new historicism, postmodernism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, and narratology as well as many new critical theories of the last twenty years such as Actor-Network Theory, Global Studies, Critical Race Theory, and Speculative Realism. This book explains the key concepts at the heart of a wide range of influential theorists from Agamben to Žižek. Entries range from concise definitions to longer more explanatory essays and include terms such as:AestheticsDesireDis
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; A note on use of this Key Concepts guide ; Introduction; List of Key Concepts; Key Concepts; Abject (abjection); Actor-Network Theory (ANT); Aesthetics (the aesthetic); Agency (agent); Alienation; Anal-sadistic phase; Antagonism; Apparatus; Archaeology (archaeological); Arche-writing, see phonocentrism; Articulation (articulatory); Assemblage and Assemblage Theory; Aura; Author; Autoethnography, see contact zone and transculturation; Bare life and homo sacer; Base and superstructure; Being and event
Description / Table of Contents:
Between the two deathsBinary opposition (binarism); Bio-politics and bio-power; Blackboxing; Body without Organs; Bricolage (bricoleur); Camp; Capital and capitalism; Carceral, see panoptic, panopticon, and carceral; Carnivalesque; Castration and castration complex; Cathexis (cathexes, to cathect); Chora; Chronotope; Class; Cognitive map; Cognitive Studies; Coming Community, see cosmopolitanism; Commodification; Commodity; Commodity fetishism; Communicative action; Communicative reason or rationality; Comprador; Compulsory heterosexuality and heterocentricity; Condensation
Description / Table of Contents:
Contact zone and transculturationContainment; Context; Correlationism; Cosmopolitanism; Counter-hegemony, see hegemony; Critical Discourse Analysis, see discourse; Critical Legal Studies, see Critical Race Theory; Critical Race Theory; Critical theory, see Introduction; Cultural capital, social capital, and symbolic capital; Cultural Materialism, see New Historicism and CulturalMaterialism; Cultural Studies, see culture; Culture; Culture industry; Cyberpunk; Cyborg; Death drive; Deconstruction (deconstructionist), see poststructuralism
Description / Table of Contents:
Deformance, see reader, reading, and Reader-ResponseCriticismDesire; Dialectic (dialectics) and dialectical materialism; Dialogic (dialogism); Diegesis; Différance; Differend; Digital humanities; Discipline; Discourse; Discourse Analysis or Discourse Studies, see discourse; Discourse ethics; Displacement; Dispositif, see apparatus; Dissensus; Distant reading, see reader, reading and Reader-ResponseCriticism; Distribution of the sensible; Division of labor; Dominant, residual, and emergent; Doxa (doxic); Dream distortion, see repression; Dream thoughts, see repression; Drives
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Dromocracy and dromologyDystopia (dystopic); Ecocriticism (ecocritical); Ecology, see ecocriticism; Écriture féminine; Ego; Ego ideal, see ideal ego and ego ideal; Emergent, see dominant, residual and emergent; Empire; Empiricism (empirical), see positivism and empiricism; Epistemology of the closet; Equivalent form; Ethnic and ethnicity, see race and ethnicity; Event, see being and event; Exchange value, see use value and exchange value; Extradiegetic, see diegesis; Face of the Other, see Other; Factiality; False consciousness, see ideology; Father of enjoyment, see super-ego
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Feminism (feminist)
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Description based upon print version of record
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