Critical Theorists and International Relations

ISBN-13: 9780415474658 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 424 str.

Jenny Edkins;Nick Vaughan-Williams

Opis

A unique and invaluable resource introducing students to the key critical theorists whose work has been influential in the field of international relations.  The book covers a broad range of approaches within critical theory including Marxism and post-Marxism, the Frankfurt School, hermeneutics,  postcolonialism, feminism, poststructuralism, deconstruction and psychoanalysis. 

Each chapter contains a short biography of the relevant thinker that sets their work in context, an introduction to their key writings and ideas, including definitions of important terms, and a summary of the ways in which these ideas have influenced and are being used in international relations scholarship.

Thinkers covered include Adorno, Agamben, Arendt, Badiou, Baudrillard, Bourdieu, Butler, Benjamin, De Beauvoir, Deleuze & Guattari, Derrida, Fanon, Foucault, Gramsci, Habermas, Kristeva, Levinas, Nancy, Ranciere, Rorty, Said, Schmitt, Spivak, Virilio and Zizek. The book also contains short introductions to important thinkers whose work is influential in critical theory including Hegel, Heidegger, Kant, Marx and Nietzsche.

Spis treści

Introduction Jenny Edkins and Nick Vaughan-Williams  1. Theodor Adorno Columba Peoples  2. Giorgio Agamben Nick Vaughan-Williams  3. Hannah Arendt Patricia Owens  4. Alain Badiou Claudia Aradau  5. Jean Baudrillard François Debrix  6. Simone de Beauvoir Kimberly Hutchings  7. Walter Benjamin Angharad Closs Stephens  8. Roy Bhaskar Milja Kurki  9. Pierre Bourdieu Peter Jackson  10. Judith Butler Cristina Masters  11. Gilles Deleuze Robin Durie  12. Jacques Derrida Maja Zehfuss  13. Franz Fanon Himadeep Muppidi 14. Michel Foucault Andrew Neal  15. Sigmund Freud Vanessa Pupavac  16. Antonio Gramsci Mark Rupert  17. Jürgen Habermas Neta Crawford  18. G. W. F. Hegel Ritu Vij  19. Martin Heidegger Louiza Odysseos  20. Immanuel Kant Kimberly Hutchings  21. Julia Kristeva Vivienne Jabri  22. Emmanuel Levinas Elizabeth Dauphinee  23. Karl Marx Milja Kurki  24. Jean-Luc Nancy Martin Coward  25. Friedrich Nietzsche Robin Durie  26. Jacques Rancière Rens van Munster  27. Richard Rorty James Brassett  28. Edward Said Latha Varadarajan  29. Carl Schmitt Louiza Odysseos and Fabio Petito  30. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Catarina Kinnvall  31. Paul Virilo James Der Derian  32. Slavoj Žižek Diane Rubenstein

O autorze

Jenny Edkins is Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University. Her books include Global Politics: A New Introduction, with Maja Zehfuss (Routledge, 2008) Nick Vaughan-Williams is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter. He is co-editor of Terrorism and the Politics of Response (Routledge 2008).