The Edinburgh Companion to Poststructuralism - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 074864122X ISBN 13: 9780748641222

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Written by experts in their field, this Companion surveys the challenges and provocations raised by the major voices of poststructuralism: Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Cixous, Lyotard, Guattari, Kristeva, Irigaray, Barthes and Baudrillard. Thematically organised and clearly written, it will guide students and researchers in philosophy, literature, art, geography, politics, sociology, law, film and cultural studies around the nature and contemporary relevance of poststructuralism.

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About the Authors

Benoît Dillet is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg, Germany. He is co-editor of Technologiques: La Pharmacie de Bernard Stiegler (Cécile Defaut, 2013) and The Edinburgh Companion to Poststructuralism (Edinburgh University Press, 2013; paperback).

Iain MacKenzie is a Lecturer in Politics, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent.

Robert Porter is a Lecturer within the Centre for Media Research at the University of Ulster.

From the Back Cover

'The editors have provided us a remarkable update on what they dub the "poststructuralist event". Eminently readable, this book renews our relationship with key thinkers in Continental philosophy, providing essays that give evidence to the claim that the event of poststructuralism is still to come.' Peter Gratton, Memorial University of Newfoundland 'This is a subtle and deep response to the question of how to define poststructuralism. Readers will benefit greatly from the erudition and thoughtfulness of its international contributors.' James Williams, University of Dundee The first English-language survey of the key texts, thinkers and methods that made up one of the most influential intellectual and political movements of the 20th century Written by leading academics from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, this is the first single volume survey that assesses the contribution of poststructuralism to debates in fields as diverse as philosophy, photography, politics, literature, museology, education, psychoanalysis and cultural studies. Uniquely structured in terms of background, methods, key themes and receptions, the essays in this collection delve deeply into the work of Cixous, Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault, Guattari, Irigaray, Lyotard and others in ways that reveal the common problems that animated their work and the ways in which these problems still define our contemporary world. The Introduction and Conclusion propose a new way of conceptualizing poststructuralism and its continuing role in contemporary intellectual and political life; namely, that it is better understood as an event than as just another 'ism' on the ideological landscape. The collection also includes a new interview with one of the most significant heirs of the poststructuralist event: the philosopher Bernard Stiegler. Benoît Dillet finished his PhD in 2012 on the concepts of the outside and difference as alternatives to the concepts of opposition, exclusion and antagonism that dominate contemporary political philosophy. Iain MacKenzie is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Kent. He is the author (with Robert Porter) of Dramatizing the Political: Deleuze and Guattari (2011), Politics: Key Concepts in Philosophy (2009) and The Idea of Pure Critique (2004). Robert Porter is a Lecturer within the Centre for Media Research, at the University of Ulster, UK. He is the author (with Iain MacKenzie) of Dramatizing the Political: Deleuze and Guattari (2011), Deleuze and Guattari: Aesthetics and Politics (2009) and Ideology: Contemporary Social, Political and Cultural Theory (2006). Cover image: (c) Surasti Puri. Cover design: [EUP logo] www.euppublishing.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 074864122X
• ISBN 13: 9780748641222
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 560
• Editor: Dillet Benoît, MacKenzie Iain, Porter Robert