John Lechte

Gebundenes Buch

Key Contemporary Concepts

From Abjection to Zeno′s Paradox

Beschreibung

An essential roadmap to the key concepts which frame our understanding of society and culture. From cybernetics to quantum theory, from ideology to power, from aesthetics to mimesis, this book spans a range of disciplines to provide an insight into the current scientific and intellectual state of society.

Autor

John Lechte is Professor in Sociology at Macquarie University, where he has responsibility for Graduate teaching and research. He has written widely on European philosophy and the image, including the work of Julia Kristeva and Georges Bataille. He has just published a key work on the image, Genealogy and Ontology of the Western Image and its Digital Future (2012), and is currently working on the human and the image. With Saul Newman, he will publish, in 2013, Agamben and the Politics of Human Rights: Statelessness, Images, Violence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 248mm x 174mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780761965343
• ISBN-10: 0761965343
• Artikelnr.: 21991863