The Edinburgh Companion to Poststructuralism - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Benoît Dillet is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg, Germany. He is co-editor of Technologiques: La Pharmacie de Bernard Stiegler (Cécile Defaut, 2013) and The Edinburgh Companion to Poststructuralism (Edinburgh University Press, 2013; paperback).

Iain MacKenzie is a Lecturer in Politics, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent.

Robert Porter is a Lecturer within the Centre for Media Research at the University of Ulster.

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‘The editors have provided us a remarkable update on what they dub the “poststructuralist event”. Eminently readable, this book renews our relationship with key thinkers in Continental philosophy, providing essays that give evidence to the claim that the event of poststructuralism is still to come.’Peter Gratton, Memorial University of Newfoundland‘This is a subtle and deep response to the question of how to define poststructuralism. Readers will benefit greatly from the erudition and thoughtfulness of its international contributors.’James Williams, University of DundeeThe first English-language survey of the key texts, thinkers and methods that made up one of the most influential intellectual and political movements of the 20th centuryWritten by leading academics from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, this is the first single volume survey that assesses the contribution of poststructuralism to debates in fields as diverse as philosophy, photography, politics, literature, museology, education, psychoanalysis and cultural studies. Uniquely structured in terms of background, methods, key themes and receptions, the essays in this collection delve deeply into the work of Cixous, Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault, Guattari, Irigaray, Lyotard and others in ways that reveal the common problems that animated their work and the ways in which these problems still define our contemporary world. The Introduction and Conclusion propose a new way of conceptualizing poststructuralism and its continuing role in contemporary intellectual and political life; namely, that it is better understood as an event than as just another ‘ism’ on the ideological landscape. The collection also includes a new interview with one of the most significant heirs of the poststructuralist event: the philosopher Bernard Stiegler.Benoît Dillet finished his PhD in 2012 on the concepts of the outside and difference as alternatives to the concepts of opposition, exclusion and antagonism that dominate contemporary political philosophy.Iain MacKenzie is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Kent. He is the author (with Robert Porter) of Dramatizing the Political: Deleuze and Guattari (2011), Politics: Key Concepts in Philosophy (2009) and The Idea of Pure Critique (2004).Robert Porter is a Lecturer within the Centre for Media Research, at the University of Ulster, UK. He is the author (with Iain MacKenzie) of Dramatizing the Political: Deleuze and Guattari (2011), Deleuze and Guattari: Aesthetics and Politics (2009) and Ideology: Contemporary Social, Political and Cultural Theory (2006).Cover image: © Surasti Puri.Cover design:[EUP logo]www.euppublishing.com