Theory for classics a student's guide /
This student's guide is a clear and concise handbook to the key connections between Classical Studies and critical theory in the twentieth century. Louise Hitchcock looks at the way Classics has been engaged across a number of disciplines. Beginning with four foundational figures - Freud, Marx,...
| Main Author: | Hitchcock, Louise. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; London :
Routledge,
2008.
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| Physical Description: |
xvi, 213 pages ; 25 cm. |
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| Summary: |
This student's guide is a clear and concise handbook to the key connections between Classical Studies and critical theory in the twentieth century. Louise Hitchcock looks at the way Classics has been engaged across a number of disciplines. Beginning with four foundational figures - Freud, Marx, Nietzshe and Saussure - Hitchcock goes on to provide guided introductions of the major theoretical thinkers of the past century, from Adorno to Williams. Each entry offers biographical, theoretical and bibliographical information along with a discussion of each figure's relevance to Classical Studies and suggestions for future research. Brisk, thoughtful, provocative, and engaging, this will be an essential first volume for anyone interested in the intersection between theory and classical studies today. |
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Includes bibliographical references. pt. I. Predecessors -- Sigmund Freud -- Karl Marx -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- Ferdinand de Saussure -- pt. II. Theorists -- Theodor W. Adorno -- Louis Althusser -- Mikhail Bakhtin -- Roland Barthes -- Georges Bataille -- Jean Baudrillard -- Walter Benjamin -- Pierre Bourdieu -- Judith Butler -- Helene Cixous -- Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari -- Jacques Derrida -- Michel Foucault -- Hans-Georg Gadamer -- Martin Heidegger -- Luce Irigaray -- Julia Kristeva -- Jacques Lacan -- Henri Lefebvre -- Emmanuel Levinas -- Jean-Francois Lyotard -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- Edward W. Said -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- Hayden White -- Raymond Williams. This student's guide is a clear and concise handbook to the key connections between Classical Studies and critical theory in the twentieth century. Louise Hitchcock looks at the way Classics has been engaged across a number of disciplines. Beginning with four foundational figures - Freud, Marx, Nietzshe and Saussure - Hitchcock goes on to provide guided introductions of the major theoretical thinkers of the past century, from Adorno to Williams. Each entry offers biographical, theoretical and bibliographical information along with a discussion of each figure's relevance to Classical Studies and suggestions for future research. Brisk, thoughtful, provocative, and engaging, this will be an essential first volume for anyone interested in the intersection between theory and classical studies today. |
| Physical Description: |
xvi, 213 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9780415454971 0415454972 9780415454988 0415454980 9780203932919 0203932919 |