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Jacques Lacan (1901-81) / Yannis Stavrakakis -- Emmanuel Levinas (1906-95) / Arjuna Weerasooriya -- Louis Althusser (1918-90) / Steve Smith -- Roland Barthes (1915-80) / Andy Stafford and Susan McManus -- Jacques Derrida (1930- ) / Adam Sharman -- Luce Irigaray (1932- ) / Mary Eden -- Hélène Cixous (1937- ) / Julia Dobson -- Julia Kristeva (1941- ) / Moya Lloyd -- Jean-François Lyotard (1924-98) / Simon Tormey -- Gilles Deleuze (1925-95) and Felix Guattari (1930-92) / Philip Goodchild -- Michel Foucault (1926-84) / Jon Simons -- Jean Baudrillard (1929- ) / Paul Hegarty -- Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) / Cheleen Mahar and Christopher Wilkes -- Jürgen Habermas (1929- ) / Martin Morris -- Fredric Jameson (1934- ) / Nick Heffernan -- Edward Said (1935-2003) / Patrick Williams. This volume covers semiotics and discourse analysis, deconstruction, feminism, queer theory, and postmodernism. Individual chapters focus on each of the following theorists: Lacan, Althusser, Barthes, Derrida, Levinas, Kristeva, Irigaray, Cixous, Foucault, Lyotard, Deleuze and Guattari, Baudrillard, Bourdieu, Habermas, Jameson, and Said. Each chapter provides biographical information and details about the thinker's intellectual contexts, an explanation of key concepts, a discussion of the ways in which their theory has been applied, and suggestions for further reading
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