Theory and the Common from Marx to Badiou

Usinga method that combines analysis, memoir, and polemic, McGee writes experimentally about a series of thinkers who ruptured linguistic and social hierarchies, fromMarx, to Gramsci, to Badiou.

List of contents

Theory Postmortem: Derrida Political Sense and Sensibility: Gramsci to Bourdieu Genealogies of Common Sense: Marx and Nietzsche Folklores of the Future: Wilde and Lawrence The Transcendental Ordinary: Wittgenstein to Badiou

About the author

PATRICK McGEE is McElveen Professor of English at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA. 

Summary

Usinga method that combines analysis, memoir, and polemic, McGee writes experimentally about a series of thinkers who ruptured linguistic and social hierarchies, fromMarx, to Gramsci, to Badiou.

Product details

• Authors: P McGee, P. McGee
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9781349378999
• ISBN: 978-1-349-37899-9
• No. of pages: 215
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 287 g
• Illustrations: VIII, 215 p.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Europa, B, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Pierre Bourdieu, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Sensibility, European Literature, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Literature—Philosophy