Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: From Structuralism to Postmodernity (Routledge Key Guides) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415074088 ISBN 13: 9780415074087

Publisher: Routledge, 1994

Synopsis

Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers surveys the most important figures who have influenced post-war thought. The reader is guided through structuralism, semiotics, post-Marxism and Annales history, on to modernity and postmodernity. With its comprehensive biographical and bibliographical information, this book provides a vital reference work of the last fifty years.

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From the Back Cover:

Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers surveys the most important figures who have influenced postwar thought. The reader is guided through structuralism, semiotics, post-Marxism and Annales history, on to modernity and postmodernity. With its comprehensive biographical and bibliographical information, this book provides a vital reference work for all those who want to understand the intellectual history of the last fifty years.

About the Author:

John Lechte, a former student of Julia Kristeva, teaches social theory at Macquarie University, Australia. He has taught and published widely on many aspects of modern thought and culture.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0415074088
• ISBN 13: 9780415074087
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Lechte John