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Hardcover. Zustand: New. This authoritative guide introduces the key figures in contemporary critical theory for the beginning student. The critical theory covered in the volume includes: Semiotics and discourse analysis Structuralism and post-structuralism Ideology critique Deconstruction Feminism Queer theory Psychoanalysis Postcolonialism Postmodernism Second generation Frankfurt School critical theory Marxism and post-Marxism. Each chapter provides biographical information and details about the thinker s intellectual context, an explanation of key concepts, an outline of the major angles of the theorist s work, an indication of ways in which their theory has been applied and suggestions for further reading. There are individual chapters on: Lacan, Levinas, Althusser, Barthes, Derrida, Irigaray, Cixous, Kristeva, Lyotard, Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault, Baudrillard, Bourdieu, Habermas, Jameson and Said.