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Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers surveys the most important figures who have influenced post-war thought. The reader is guided through structuralism, semiotics, post-Marxism and Annales history, on to modernity and postmodernity. With its comprehensive biographical and bibliographical information, this book provides a vital reference work of the last fifty years.
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I bought this while beginning grad school in anthropology back in 1995, and still turn to it regularly. There is much to argue with in terms of interpretations of particular authors' work but as a well-documented and concise reference work it can't be beat.
ThisΒ revised secondΒ edition from our bestselling <EM>Key Guides</EM> includes brand new entries onΒ some of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth- and twenty-first century: Zizek, Bergson, Husserl, Heidegger, Butler and Haraway. <P>With a newΒ introduction by the author, sections on phenome
Postmodernism is an important part of the cultural landscape which continues to evolve, yet the ideas and theories surrounding the subject can be diverse and difficult to understand. Fifty Postmodern Thinkers critically examines the work of fifty of the most important theorists within the postmodern