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Introducing Critical Theory: A Graphic Guide
Professor Stuart Sim
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Description for Introducing Critical Theory: A Graphic Guide
Paperback. Offers a route through the tangled jungle of competing ideas and provides an essential historical context, situating these theories within tradition of critical analysis going back to the rise of Marxism. This book presents the essential methods and objectives of each theoretical school. Illustrator(s): Van Loon, Borin. Series: Introducing.. Num Pages: 175 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 103 x 14. Weight in Grams: 154.
What might a 'theory of everything' look like? Is science an ideology? Who were Adorno, Horkheimer or the Frankfurt School? The decades since the 1960s have seen an explosion in the production of critical theories. Deconstructionists, poststructuralists, postmodernists, second-wave feminists, new historicists, cultural materialists, postcolonialists, black critics and queer theorists, among a host of others, all vie for our attention. Stuart Sim and Borin Van Loon's incisive graphic guide provides a route through the tangled jungle of competing ideas and provides an essential historical context, situating these theories within tradition of critical analysis going back to the rise of Marxism. ... Read more
What might a 'theory of everything' look like? Is science an ideology? Who were Adorno, Horkheimer or the Frankfurt School? The decades since the 1960s have seen an explosion in the production of critical theories. Deconstructionists, poststructuralists, postmodernists, second-wave feminists, new historicists, cultural materialists, postcolonialists, black critics and queer theorists, among a host of others, all vie for our attention. Stuart Sim and Borin Van Loon's incisive graphic guide provides a route through the tangled jungle of competing ideas and provides an essential historical context, situating these theories within tradition of critical analysis going back to the rise of Marxism. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Icon Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
175
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Introducing...
Condition
New
Number of Pages
175
Place of Publication
Duxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848310599
SKU
V9781848310599
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About Professor Stuart Sim
Borin Van Loon has worked on numerous Introducing titles. He is a freelance illustrator, surrealist painter and collagist who produced the comic strip 'The Severed Head' for The Chap magazine.
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