Cultural Theory: The Key Thinkers

by Edgar; Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780415232814
• ISBN10: 0415232813
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-12-14
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

A perfect companion to the recently publishedKey Concepts in Cultural Theory, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of the key terms, arguments, and theories relating to issues in cultural theory. The essays focus on those thinkers who have been essential in the development of this field of study.Cultural Theory: The Key Thinkerswill equip students with the necessary background knowledge to further enhance their understanding of the complex issues in the study of culture. Each entry is concerned with the work of each thinker and reflects the wide range of disciplines that feed into cultural theory, from literary theory, media studies, and phenomenology to philosophy, semiology, and sociology. The book features contemporary greats like Durkheim, Kant, Marcuse, and Lyotard; and significant figures in Western tradition, such as Aristotle, Hume, Plato, and Rousseau.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	ix
Preface	xi
Adorno	1	(3)
Althusser	4	(1)
Arendt	5	(2)
Aristotle	7	(5)
Arnold	12	(2)
Bakhtin	14	(2)
Barthes	16	(3)
Bataille	19	(3)
Baudrillard	22	(1)
Benedict	22	(3)
Benjamin	25	(3)
Bloch	28	(2)
Bourdieu	30	(2)
Brecht	32	(1)
Castoriadis	33	(3)
Chomsky	36	(2)
Cixous	38	(1)
Deleuze and Guattari	39	(4)
De Man	43	(2)
Derrida	45	(7)
Descartes	52	(4)
Dewey	56	(4)
Durkheim	60	(4)
Eco	64	(3)
Elias	67	(2)
Fanon	69	(2)
Foucault	71	(5)
Freud	76	(2)
Gadamer	78	(4)
Geertz	82	(2)
Giddens	84	(1)
Goffman	85	(1)
Gramsci	86	(3)
Habermas	89	(2)
Hall	91	(1)
Hegel	92	(4)
Heidegger	96	(4)
Hoggart	100	(1)
Horkheimer	101	(2)
Hume	103	(4)
Husserl	107	(3)
Irigaray	110	(2)
Jakobson	112	(2)
James CLR	114	(2)
Jameson	116	(2)
Jung	118	(2)
Kant	120	(3)
Kristeva	123	(2)
Kuhn	125	(2)
Lacan	127	(2)
Leavis	129	(2)
Le Corbusier	131	(1)
Le Doeuff	132	(1)
Levinas	133	(7)
Levi-Strauss	140	(3)
Lukacs	143	(2)
Lyotard	145	(3)
Maclntyre	148	(2)
Malraux	150	(2)
Marx	152	(4)
Mauss	156	(2)
Merleau-Ponty	158	(2)
Mill	160	(4)
Nietzsche	164	(9)
Nussbaum	173	(1)
Oakeshott	174	(6)
Parsons	180	(2)
Peirce	182	(2)
Plato	184	(6)
Popper	190	(1)
Rawls	191	(2)
Ricoeur	193	(2)
Rorty	195	(3)
Rose	198	(2)
Rousseau	200	(4)
Said	204	(2)
Sartre	206	(2)
Saussure	208	(2)
Schutz	210	(1)
Simmel	211	(3)
Skinner	214	(2)
Smith	216	(1)
Sontag	217	(2)
Taylor	219	(2)
Weber	221	(4)
Williams	225	(2)
Wittgenstein	227	(4)
Glossary	231	(8)
Bibliography	239	(38)
Index	277