50 Contemporary Thinkers_John Lechte

From Structuralism toPost-Humanism


CONTENTS
Preface To First Edition ix
Preface To Second Edition xii
Acknowledgements xiv
Introduction xv

Early Structuralism 3
Bachelard 3
Bakhtin 11
Mauss 18

Phenomenology 25
Heidegger 26
Husserl 36
Levinas 44
Merleau-Ponty 51

Structuralism 58
Benveniste 59
Bourdieu 65
Chomsky 72
Dume´zil 80
Genette 87
Jakobson 94
Lacan 102
Le´vi-Strauss 111
Metz 120

Post-Structuralist Thought 128
Derrida 129
Foucault 137
Semiotics 146
Barthes 146
Eco 156
Hjelmslev 163
Peirce 170

Saussure 176

Second-Generation Feminism 184
Butler 184
Irigaray 191
Le Doeuff 199

Post-Marxism 206
Agamben 207
Adorno 216
Arendt 225
Badiou 233
Habermas 241
Zˇizˇek 250

Modernity 260
Benjamin 260
Blanchot 269
Nietzsche 277
Joyce 285
Sollers 292

Post-modernity 299
Baudrillard 300
Duras 308
Kafka 315
Lyotard 322

The Post-Human 332
Haraway 333
Maturana 339
Serres 345
Virilio 354

Vitalist-Inspired Thought 364
Bataille 364
Bergson 372
Deleuze 378
Freud 387
Kristeva 395