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    Violence, Image and Victim in Bataille, Agamben and Girard

    John Lechte

    A study of violence and the image in the work of Bataille, Agamben and Girard, thinkers who aim to explain the basis of society and culture in the context of…

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    Julia Kristeva

    John Lechte

    In this survey of Julia Kristeva’s work, the author outlines her intellectual development, from her work on Bakhtin through her theories of the symbolic and the semiotic to her analysis…

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    Genealogy and Ontology of the Western Image and its Digital Future

    John Lechte

    What are the key moments in the genealogy of the Western image which might illuminate the present status of the image? And what exactly is the situation to which we…

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    Genealogy and Ontology of the Western Image and its Digital Future

    John Lechte

    What are the key moments in the genealogy of the Western image which might illuminate the present status of the image? And what exactly is the situation to which we…

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    Julia Kristeva

    John Lechte

    In this survey of Julia Kristeva’s work, the author outlines her intellectual development, from her work on Bakhtin through her theories of the symbolic and the semiotic to her analysis…

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    Key Contemporary Concepts: From Abjection to Zeno’s Paradox

    John Lechte

    Key Contemporary Concepts

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    The Human: Bare Life and Ways of Life

    John Lechte

    Why is it important to consider the human today? Exploring this question John Lechte takes inspiration from the interplay of two of Giorgio Agamben’s concepts: ‘ways of life’ and ‘bare…

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    The Human: Bare Life and Ways of Life

    John Lechte

    Why is it important to consider the human today? Exploring this question John Lechte takes inspiration from the interplay of two of Giorgio Agamben’s concepts: ‘ways of life’ and ‘bare…

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    Philosophy of the Medium

    John Lechte

    Taking the principle of the 'disappearance of the medium' into new territory, this book questions the pervasive influence of the principle that the 'medium is the message'. Bold and expansive…

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    Key Contemporary Concepts: From Abjection to Zeno’s Paradox

    John Lechte

    Following his 1994 Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: From Structuralism to Postmodernity , Lechte (sociology, Macquarie U.) sets out the rationale for major concepts used in the social sciences and humanities…

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    Violence, Image and Victim in Bataille, Agamben and Girard

    John Lechte

    A study of violence and the image in the work of Bataille, Agamben and Girard, thinkers who aim to explain the basis of society and culture in the context of…

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    Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: From Structuralism to Post-Humanism

    John Lechte (Macquarie University, Australia)

    This revised second edition of our bestselling Key Guide includes brand new entries on some of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth and twenty first century.

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    Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: From Structuralism to Post-Humanism

    John Lechte (Macquarie University, Australia)

    This revised second edition of our bestselling Key Guide includes brand new entries on some of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth and twenty first century.

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    Agamben and the Politics of Human Rights: Statelessness, Images, Violence

    John Lechte,Saul Newman

    Can human rights protect the stateless? Or are they permanently excluded from politics? The authors explore questions of statelessness, exclusion, the violence of securitisation and the visual representation of refugees…

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    The Kristeva Critical Reader

    This in-depth critical assessment of the work of French psychoanalyst and literary theorist, Julia Kristeva, brings together for the first time readings both classical and new.

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    Agamben and the Politics of Human Rights: Statelessness, Images, Violence

    John Lechte,Saul Newman

    Can human rights protect the stateless? Or are they permanently excluded from politics? This title argues that human rights are a sign of our growing powerlessness and political alienation in…

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    Julia Kristeva: Live Theory

    John Lechte (Macquarie University, Sydney),Dr Maria Margaroni

    This innovative introductory text clearly explains the most complex ideas of Julia Kristeva - one of the most influential critics and theorists of contemporary culture.

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    Textual Layering: Contact, Historicity, Critique

    Employing the concept of layering, this book seeks to rethink our relation to textual tradition against the background of the emergence of digital culture, the increasing spectacularization of psychic as…

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