Introducing Critical Theory: A Graphic Guide

Professor Stuart Sim

ISBN 10: 1848310595 / ISBN 13: 9781848310599

Published by Icon Books, 2009

About this Item

2009. Rev ed. Paperback. Offers a route through the tangled jungle of competing ideas and provides an essential historical context, situating these theories within tradition of critical analysis going back to the rise of Marxism. This book presents the essential methods and objectives of each theoretical school. Illustrator(s): Van Loon, Borin. Series: Introducing. Num Pages: 175 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 103 x 14. Weight in Grams: 154. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Introducing Critical Theory: A Graphic Guide
• Publisher: Icon Books
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848310595
• ISBN 13: 9781848310599
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Van Loon, Borin
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

What might a 'theory of everything' look like? Is science an ideology? Who were Adorno, Horkheimer or the Frankfurt School? The decades since the 1960s have seen an explosion in the production of critical theories. Deconstructionists, poststructuralists, postmodernists, second-wave feminists, new historicists, cultural materialists, postcolonialists, black critics and queer theorists, among a host of others, all vie for our attention. Stuart Sim and Borin Van Loon's incisive graphic guide provides a route through the tangled jungle of competing ideas and provides an essential historical context, situating these theories within tradition of critical analysis going back to the rise of Marxism. They present the essential methods and objectives of each theoretical school in an incisive and accessible manner, and pay special attention to recurrent themes and concerns that have preoccupied a century of critical theoretical activity.

About the Author

Borin Van Loon has worked on numerous Introducing titles. He is a freelance illustrator, surrealist painter and collagist who produced the comic strip 'The Severed Head' for The Chap magazine.