Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction, Jon Simons; 1. Giorgio Agamben (1942 -), Paul Hegarty; 2. Alain Badiou (1937 -), Benjamin Robinson; 3. Zygmunt Bauman (1925 -), Peter Beilharz; 4. Homi K. Bhabha (1949 -), David Huddart; 5. Judith Butler (1956 -), Moya Lloyd; 6. Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997), Caroline Williams; 7. Green critical theorists, David Kidner; 8. Donna J. Haraway (1944 -), Joan Faber McAlister; 9. Ernesto Laclau (1935 -) and Chantal Mouffe (1943 -), Simon Tormey; 10. Bruno Latour (1947 -), Ilana Gershon; 11. Antonio Negri (1933 -), Arianna Bove; 12. Jacques Ranciere (1940 -), Samuel A. Chambers; 13. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942 -), Stephen Morton; 14. Paul Virilio (1932 -), John Armitage; 15. Slavoj ae'iae'ek (1949 -), Matthew Sharpe; Index.

About the Author

Jon Simons is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University who has broad expertise in contemporary critical theory. He is the author of Foucault and the Political (Routledge, 1995) and the editor of and contributor to From Kant to Levi-Strauss: The Background to Contemporary Critical Theory and Contemporary Critical Theorists: From Lacan to Said (Edinburgh University Press, 2002 & 2004 respectively). John Armitage is Professor of Media at Northumbria University