Theory for Classics: A Student's Guide

by Hitchcock; Louise

• ISBN13: 9780415454988
• ISBN10: 0415454980
• Edition: Student
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-03-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This student's guide is a clear and concise handbook to the key connections between Classical Studies and critical theory in the twentieth century. Louise Hitchcock looks at the way Classics has been engaged across a number of disciplines. Beginning with four foundational figures - Freud, Marx, Nietzshe and Saussure - Hitchcock goes on to provide guided introductions of the major theoretical thinkers of the past century, from Adorno to Williams. Each entry offers biographical, theoretical and bibliographical information along with a discussion of each figure's relevance to Classical Studies and suggestions for future research. Brisk, thoughtful, provocative, and engaging, this will be an essential first volume for anyone interested in the intersection between theory and classical studies today.

Table of Contents

Predecessors

Sigmund Freud

Karl Marx

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ferdinand de Saussure

Theory For Classics

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

Louis Althusser

Mikhail Bakhtin

Roland Barthes

Georges Bataille

Jean Baudrillard

Walter Benjamin

Pierre Bourdieu

Judith Butler

Hel ne Cixous

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari

Jacques Derrida

Michel Foucault

Hans-Georg Gadamer

Martin Heidegger

Luce Irigaray

Julia Kristeva

Jacques Lacan

Henri Lefebvre

Emmanuel Levinas

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Edward W. Said

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Hayden White

Raymond Williams

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