Cultural Theory: The Key Thinkers
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Cultural Theory: The Key Thinkers

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Cultural Theory: The Key Thinkers

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Featuring over eighty essays, Cultural Theory: The Key Thinkers is a seminal guide to the literary critics, sociologists, historians, artists, philosophers and writers who have shaped culture and society, and the way in which we view them. Ranging from Arnold to Le Corbusier, from Eco to Marx, the entries offer a lucid analysis of the work of influential figures in the study of cultural theory, making this the perfect introduction for the student and general reader alike.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2005
Print ISBN
9780415232807
eBook ISBN
9781134571307
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Ethnic Studies
Index
Social Sciences

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. List of Contributors
  5. Preface
  6. Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund (1903–1969)
  7. Althusser, Louis (1918–1990)
  8. Arendt, Hannah (1906–1975)
  9. Aristotle (384–322 BC)
  10. Arnold, Matthew (1822–1888)
  11. Bakhtin, Mikhail (1895–1975)
  12. Barthes, Roland (1915–1980)
  13. Bataille, Georges (1897–1962)
  14. Baudrillard, Jean (1929– )
  15. Benedict, Ruth (1887–1948)
  16. Benjamin, Walter (1892–1940)
  17. Bloch, Ernst (1885–1977)
  18. Bourdieu, Pierre (1930– )
  19. Brecht, Bertolt (1898–1956)
  20. Castoriadis, Cornelius (1922–1997)
  21. Chomsky, Noam (1928– )
  22. Cixous, Hélène (1937– )
  23. Deleuze, Gilles (1925–1995) and Guattari, Félix (1936–1992)
  24. De Man, Paul (1919–1983)
  25. Derrida, Jacques (1930– )
  26. Descartes, René (1596–1650)
  27. Dewey, John (1859–1952)
  28. Durkheim, Emile (1858–1917)
  29. Eco, Umberto (1932– )
  30. Elias, Norbert (1897–1990)
  31. Fanon, Frantz (1925–1961)
  32. Foucault, Michel (1926–1984)
  33. Freud, Sigmund (1856–1939)
  34. Gadamer, Hans-Georg (1900– )
  35. Geertz, Clifford (1926– )
  36. Giddens, Anthony (1938– )
  37. Goffman, Erving (1922–1982)
  38. Gramsci, Antonio (1891–1937)
  39. Habermas, Jürgen (1929– )
  40. Hall, Stuart (1932– )
  41. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770–1831)
  42. Heidegger, Martin (1889–1976)
  43. Hoggart, Richard (1918– )
  44. Horkheimer, Max (1895–1973)
  45. Hume, David (1711–1776)
  46. Husserl, Edmund (1859–1938)
  47. Irigaray, Luce (1932– )
  48. Jakobson, Roman (1896–1982)
  49. James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert) (1901–1989)
  50. Jameson, Fredric (1934– )
  51. Jung, Carl Gustav (1875–1961)
  52. Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804)
  53. Kristeva, Julia (1941– )
  54. Kuhn, Thomas S. (1922–1996)
  55. Lacan, Jacques (1901–1981)
  56. Leavis, F. R. (1895–1978)
  57. Le Corbusier (1887–1965)
  58. Le Doeuff, Michèle (1948– )
  59. Lévinas, Emmanuel (1906–1995)
  60. Lévi-Strauss, Claude (1908– )
  61. Lukács, Gyorgy (1885–1971)
  62. Lyotard, Jean-François (1925–1998)
  63. Macintyre, Alasdair (1929– )
  64. Malraux, André (1901–1976)
  65. Marx, Karl (1818–1883)
  66. Mauss, Marcel (1872–1950)
  67. Merleau-Ponty, Maurice (1907–1961)
  68. Mill, John Stuart (1806–1873)
  69. Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844–1900)
  70. Nussbaum, Martha C. (1947– )
  71. Oakeshott, Michael (1901–1990)
  72. Parsons, Talcott (1902–1979)
  73. Peirce, Charles Sanders (1839–1914)
  74. Plato (c.428–c.348 BC)
  75. Popper, Karl (1902–1994)
  76. Rawls, John (1921– )
  77. Ricoeur, Paul (1913– )
  78. Rorty, Richard (1931– )
  79. Rose, Gillian (1947–1995)
  80. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712–1778)
  81. Said, Edward (1935– )
  82. Sartre, Jean-Paul (1905–1980)
  83. Saussure, Ferdinand De (1857–1913)
  84. Schutz, Alfred (1899–1959)
  85. Simmel, Georg (1858–1918)
  86. Skinner, B. F. (Burrhus Frederic) (1904–1990)
  87. Smith, Adam (1723–1790)
  88. Sontag, Susan (1933– )
  89. Taylor, Charles (1931– )
  90. Weber, Max (1864–1920)
  91. Williams, Raymond (1921–1988)
  92. Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1889–1951)
  93. Glossary
  94. Bibliography