Theory for Classics: A Student's Guide

✍ Scribed by Louise Hitchcock

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 230
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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. 

Theory for Classics, adapted from Theory for Religious Studies, by William E. Deal and Timothy K. Beal, is a brisk, thoughtful, provocative, and engaging title, which will be an essential first volume for anyone interested in the intersection between theory and classical studies today.

 

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction: Classics and theory—who needs it?......Page 12
Part I: Predecessors......Page 18
1 Sigmund Freud......Page 20
2 Karl Marx......Page 30
3 Friedrich Nietzsche......Page 37
4 Ferdinand de Saussure......Page 46
Part II: The Theorists......Page 52
5 Theodor W. Adorno......Page 54
6 Louis Althusser......Page 61
7 Mikhail Bakhtin......Page 67
8 Roland Barthes......Page 73
9 Georges Bataille......Page 82
10 Jean Baudrillard......Page 91
11 Walter Benjamin......Page 97
12 Pierre Bourdieu......Page 106
13 Judith Butler......Page 114
14 Hélène Cixous......Page 119
15 Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari......Page 123
16 Jacques Derrida......Page 130
17 Michel Foucault......Page 141
18 Hans-Georg Gadamer......Page 150
19 Martin Heidegger......Page 155
20 Luce Irigaray......Page 163
21 Julia Kristeva......Page 168
22 Jacques Lacan......Page 173
23 Henri Lefebvre......Page 181
24 Emmanuel Levinas......Page 186
25 Jean-François Lyotard......Page 192
26 Maurice Merleau-Ponty......Page 199
27 Edward W. Said......Page 205
28 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak......Page 213
29 Hayden White......Page 219
30 Raymond Williams......Page 225