Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: From Structuralism to Post-Humanism » (REV)

This revised second edition of our bestselling Key Guide includes brand new entries on some of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth and twenty-first century:

• Zizek
• Bergson
• Husserl
• Heidegger
• Butler
• Haraway.

With a new introduction by the author, sections on phenomenology and the post-human, full cross-referencing and up-to-date guides to major primary and secondary texts, this is an essential resource to contemporary critical thought for undergraduates and the interested reader.

Preface To First Edition     ix
Preface To Second Edition     xii
Acknowledgements     xiv
Introduction     xv
Early Structuralism     3
Bachelard     3
Bakhtin     11
Mauss     18
Phenomenology     25
Heidegger     26
Husserl     36
Levinas     44
Merleau-Ponty     51
Structuralism     58
Benveniste     59
Bourdieu     65
Chomsky     72
Dumezil     80
Genette     87
Jakobson     94
Lacan     102
Levi-Strauss     111
Metz     120
Post-Structuralist Thought     128
Derrida     129
Foucault     137
Semiotics     146
Barthes     146
Eco     156
Hjelmslev     163
Peirce     170
Saussure     176
Second-Generation Feminism     184
Butler     184
Irigaray     191
Le Doeuff     199
Post-Marxism     206
Agamben     207
Adorno     216
Arendt     225
Badiou     233
Habermas     241
Zizek     250
Modernity     260
Benjamin     260
Blanchot     269
Nietzsche     277
Joyce     285
Sollers     292
Post-modernity     299
Baudrillard     300
Duras     308
Kafka     315
Lyotard     322
The Post-Human     332
Haraway     333
Maturana     339
Serres     345
Virilio     354
Vitalist-Inspired Thought     364
Bataille     364
Bergson     372
Deleuze     378
Freud     387
Kristeva     395
Index     405