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Cultural theory : the key thinkers / Andrew Edgar and Peter Sedgwick.

By: Edgar, Andrew.
Contributor(s): Sedgwick, Peter [(j.a.)].
Series: Routledge key guides. Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002Description: xi, 288 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0415232805.Subject(s): CultureDDC classification: 306
Contents:
List of contributors. - Preface. - Adorno. - Althusser. - Arendt. - Aristotle. - Arnold. - Bakhtin. - Barthes. - Bataille. - Baudrillard. - Benedict. - Benjamin. - Bloch. - Bourdieu. - Brecht. - Castoriadis. - Chomsky. - Cixous. - Deleuze and Guattari. - De Mam. - Derrida. - Descartes. - Dewey. -Durkheim. - Eco. - Elias. - Fanon. - Foucault. - Freud. - Gadamer. - Geertz. - Giddens. - Goffman.- Gramsci. - Habermas. - Hall. - Hegel. - Heidegger. - Hoggart. - Horkheimer. - Hume. - Husserl. - Irigaray. - Jakobson. - James CLR. - Jameson. - Jung. - Kant. - Kristeva. - Kuhn. - Lacan. - Leavis. - Le Corbusier. - Le Doeuff. - Levinas. - Levi-Strauss. - Lukacs. - Lyotard. - MacIntyre. - Malraux. - Marx. - Mauss. - Merleau-Ponty. - Mill. - Nietzsche. - Nussbaum. - Oakeshot. - Parsons. - Peirce. - Plato. - Popper. - Rawls. - Ricoeur. - Rorty. - Rose. - Rousseau. - Said. - Sartre. - Saussure. - Schutz. - Simmel. - Skinner. - Smith. - Sontag. - Taylor. - Weber. - Williams. - Wittgenstein. - Glossary. - Bibliography. - Index.
Summary: "Cultural Theory : The Key Thinkers is the essential guide to the literary critics, sociologists, artists, philosophers and writes who have shaped contemporary culture and society, and the way in which we view them. The entries offer a lucid analysis of the work of the most influential figures in the study of cultural theory, including : Adorno, Bourdieu, Freud, Leavis, Marx, Oakeshott, Saussure, Wittgenstein. With a comprehensive bibliography and suggestions for further reading, Cultural Theory : The Key Thinkers is the perfect introduction for the student and general reader alike." - Back cover.
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List of contributors. - Preface. - Adorno. - Althusser. - Arendt. - Aristotle. - Arnold. - Bakhtin. - Barthes. - Bataille. - Baudrillard. - Benedict. - Benjamin. - Bloch. - Bourdieu. - Brecht. - Castoriadis. - Chomsky. - Cixous. - Deleuze and Guattari. - De Mam. - Derrida. - Descartes. - Dewey. -Durkheim. - Eco. - Elias. - Fanon. - Foucault. - Freud. - Gadamer. - Geertz. - Giddens. - Goffman.- Gramsci. - Habermas. - Hall. - Hegel. - Heidegger. - Hoggart. - Horkheimer. - Hume. - Husserl. - Irigaray. - Jakobson. - James CLR. - Jameson. - Jung. - Kant. - Kristeva. - Kuhn. - Lacan. - Leavis. - Le Corbusier. - Le Doeuff. - Levinas. - Levi-Strauss. - Lukacs. - Lyotard. - MacIntyre. - Malraux. - Marx. - Mauss. - Merleau-Ponty. - Mill. - Nietzsche. - Nussbaum. - Oakeshot. - Parsons. - Peirce. - Plato. - Popper. - Rawls. - Ricoeur. - Rorty. - Rose. - Rousseau. - Said. - Sartre. - Saussure. - Schutz. - Simmel. - Skinner. - Smith. - Sontag. - Taylor. - Weber. - Williams. - Wittgenstein. - Glossary. - Bibliography. - Index.

"Cultural Theory : The Key Thinkers is the essential guide to the literary critics, sociologists, artists, philosophers and writes who have shaped contemporary culture and society, and the way in which we view them. The entries offer a lucid analysis of the work of the most influential figures in the study of cultural theory, including : Adorno, Bourdieu, Freud, Leavis, Marx, Oakeshott, Saussure, Wittgenstein. With a comprehensive bibliography and suggestions for further reading, Cultural Theory : The Key Thinkers is the perfect introduction for the student and general reader alike." - Back cover.