Spatial Ecologies - Urban Sites, State and World-Space in French Cultural Theory

Informationen zum Autor Verena Conley is Visiting Professor of Literature and Comparative Literature and of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, and the author of Ecopolitics: The Environment in French Poststructuralist Thought (Routledge, 1996); and Hélène Cixous: Writing the Feminine (University of Nebraska Press, 1991). Klappentext This book takes a new look at the 'spatial turn' in French cultural and critical theory since 1968. It examines how key thinkers (inc. Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Jean Baudrillard, Marc Augé, Paul Virilio, Bruno Latour and Etienne Balibar) reconsider the experience of space in the midst of considerable political and economic turmoil. Zusammenfassung This book takes a new look at the 'spatial turn' in French cultural and critical theory since 1968. It examines how key thinkers (inc. Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Jean Baudrillard, Marc Augé, Paul Virilio, Bruno Latour and Etienne Balibar) reconsider the experience of space in the midst of considerable political and economic turmoil. Introduction: Space as a Critical Concept 1. Henri Lefebvre: Lived Spaces 2. Michael de Certeau: Anthropological Spaces 3. Jean Baudrullard: Media Places 4. Marc Auge: Non-Places 5. Paul Virilio: Speed Spaces 6. Delueze and Guattari: Spae and Becoming 7. Bruno Latour: Common Spaces 8. Etienne Balibar: Spatial Fictions Conclusion: Future Spaces Bibliography Indix

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• Authors: Verena Andermatt Conley, Verena (Department of Romance La Andermatt Conley, Verena (Department Of Romance Languages And Literatures Andermatt Conley, Verena Andermatt Conley
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.04.2014
• EAN: 9781781380055
• ISBN: 978-1-78138-005-5
• No. of pages: 171
• Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures; Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries