Contemporary Critical Theorists:
From Agamben to Zizek
EDITED BY JON SIMONS
In these 15 taster essays you will discover the key concepts and critical approaches of the theorists who have had the most significant impact on the humanities since 1990. On completing each chapter, you will find suggestions for further reading so that you can find out more and start applying the ideas in question. In addition to chapters on individuals such as Badiou, Rancière and Spivak, there are chapters on Laclau and Mouffe, and a chapter on Green critical theorists.
Key Features
* Written by experienced lecturers including John Armitage (Northumbria University), Paul Hegarty (University College Cork), David Huddart (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Simon Tormey (The University of Sydney), Samuel A. Chambers (Johns Hopkins University)
* Sets each theorist in their biographical and intellectual context
* The only book to offer chapter-length introductions to such a range of contemporary theorists making it the first place to look for an informed overview and evaluation
Jon Simons is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University and has edited two other popular guides to critical theory: From Kant to Lévi-Strauss: The Background to Contemporary Critical Theory and Contemporary Critical Theorists: From Lacan to Said.

Jon Simons is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University who has broad expertise in contemporary critical theory. He is the author of Foucault and the Political (Routledge, 1995) and the editor of and contributor to From Kant to Lévi-Strauss: The Background to Contemporary Critical Theory and Contemporary Critical Theorists: From Lacan to Said (Edinburgh University Press, 2002 & 2004 respectively).

Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction, Jon Simons;
1. Giorgio Agamben (1942 -), Paul Hegarty; 2. Alain Badiou (1937 -), Benjamin Robinson; 3. Zygmunt Bauman (1925 -), Peter Beilharz; 4. Homi K. Bhabha (1949 -), David Huddart; 5. Judith Butler (1956 -), Moya Lloyd; 6. Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997), Caroline Williams; 7. Green critical theorists, David Kidner; 8. Donna J. Haraway (1944 -), Joan Faber McAlister; 9. Ernesto Laclau (1935 -) and Chantal Mouffe (1943 -), Simon Tormey; 10. Bruno Latour (1947 -), Ilana Gershon; 11. Antonio Negri (1933 -), Arianna Bove; 12. Jacques Rancière (1940 -), Samuel A. Chambers; 13. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942 -), Stephen Morton; 14. Paul Virilio (1932 -), John Armitage; 15. Slavoj Zizek (1949 -), Matthew Sharpe; Index.