Routledge Critical Thinkers Series

46 primary works • 46 total works

Series Editor: Robert Eaglestone
Routledge Critical Thinkers is designed for students who need an accessible introduction to the key figures in contemporary critical thought. The books provide crucial orientation for further study and equip readers to engage with theorists' original texts. The volumes in the Routledge Critical Thinkers series place …

Roland Barthes

by Graham Allen

3.97 · 103 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2003 · 15 editions

Roland Barthes is a central figure in the study of…

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Jean Baudrillard

by Richard J. Lane

3.69 · 165 Ratings · 10 Reviews · published 2000 · 23 editions

Best known as the philosopher who claimed that the…

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Maurice Blanchot

by Ullrich Haase

3.71 · 65 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2001 · 15 editions

Without Maurice Blanchot, literary theory as we kn…

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Judith Butler

by Sara Salih

3.96 · 165 Ratings · 18 Reviews · published 2002 · 18 editions

Since the publication of Gender Trouble in 1990, J…

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Gilles Deleuze

by Claire Colebrook

3.95 · 509 Ratings · 43 Reviews · published 2001 · 22 editions

Why think? Not, according to Gilles Deleuze, in or…

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Jacques Derrida

by Nicholas Royle

3.56 · 171 Ratings · 22 Reviews · published 2003 · 18 editions

There are few figures more important in literary a…

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Michel Foucault

by Sara Mills

3.74 · 306 Ratings · 38 Reviews · published 1985 · 39 editions

It is impossible to imagine contemporary critical …

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Sigmund Freud

by Pamela Thurschwell

3.79 · 143 Ratings · 11 Reviews · published 2000 · 30 editions

Sigmund Freud provides an invaluable introduction …

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Giorgio Agamben

by Alex Murray

3.89 · 36 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2008 · 14 editions

Giorgio Agamben is one of the most important and c…

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Jean-Paul Sartre

by Christine Daigle

4.04 · 27 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2009 · 9 editions

A critical figure in twentieth-century literature …

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Jacques Lacan

by Sean Homer

3.90 · 528 Ratings · 64 Reviews · published 2004 · 21 editions

Jacques Lacan is one of the most challenging and c…

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Martin Heidegger

by Timothy Clark

3.75 · 83 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 2001 · 26 editions

Since the publication of Being and Time (1927), Ma…

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Slavoj Žižek

by Tony Myers

3.82 · 266 Ratings · 25 Reviews · published 2003 · 22 editions

Slavoj Zizek is no ordinary philosopher. Approachi…

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Theodor Adorno

by Ross Wilson

3.71 · 70 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2006 · 15 editions

The range of Adorno's achievement, and the depth o…

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Fredric Jameson

by Adam Roberts

3.77 · 77 Ratings · 10 Reviews · published 2000 · 17 editions

An invaluable introduction to the life and work of…

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F.R. Leavis

by Richard Storer

3.60 · 5 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2009 · 11 editions

‘informative, succint, circumspect; an exacting in…

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Edward Said

by Bill Ashcroft

4.02 · 99 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1999 · 34 editions

Edward Said is perhaps best known as the author of…

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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

by Jason Edwards

3.77 · 22 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2008 · 11 editions

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick was one of the most signific…

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Stephen Greenblatt

by Mark Robson

2.75 · 8 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2007 · 10 editions

Stephen Greenblatt is the most important exponent …

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Theorists of Modernist Poetry: T. S. Eliot, T. E. Hulme, Ezra Pound

by Rebecca Beasley

3.55 · 20 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2007 · 12 editions

Modernist poetry heralded a radical new aesthetic …

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Paul Virilio

by Ian James

3.79 · 19 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2007 · 15 editions

Paul Virilio is a challenging and original thinker…

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Theorists of the Modernist Novel

by Deborah Parsons

3.93 · 29 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2006 · 13 editions

Tracing the developing modernist aesthetic in the …

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Feminist Film Theorists

by Shohini Chaudhuri

3.88 · 84 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 2006 · 16 editions

Focusing on the ground-breaking work of Laura Mulv…

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Cyberculture Theorists

by David Bell

3.77 · 53 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2006 · 14 editions

This book surveys a ‘cluster’ of works that seek t…

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American Theorists of the Novel: Henry James, Lionel Trilling and Wayne C. Booth

by Peter Rawlings

3.00 · 9 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2006 · 12 editions

The American Henry James, Lionel Trilling and Wayn…

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Julia Kristeva

by Noëlle McAfee

3.87 · 111 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 2003 · 13 editions

One of the most original thinkers of the twentieth…

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Louis Althusser

by Luke Ferretter

3.78 · 105 Ratings · 12 Reviews · published 2005 · 14 editions

Best known for his theories of ideology and its im…

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Simone de Beauvoir

by Ursula Tidd

3.97 · 67 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2003 · 14 editions

Simone de Beauvoir's groundbreaking work has trans…

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Paul Ricoeur

by Karl Simms

3.91 · 46 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2002 · 14 editions

Paul Ricoeur is one of the most wide-ranging think…

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Antonio Gramsci (Rct)

by Steven J. Jones

3.52 · 80 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 2006 · 13 editions

For readers encountering Gramsci for the first tim…

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Homi K. Bhabha (Routledge Critical Thinkers) (Routledge Critical Thinkers

by David Huddart

3.73 · 51 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2005 · 12 editions

Homi K. Bhabha is one of the most highly renowned …

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Friedrich Nietzsche

by Lee Spinks

3.79 · 68 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2003 · 13 editions

It is difficult to imagine a world without common …

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Jean-François Lyotard

by Simon Malpas

3.71 · 63 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2002 · 20 editions

Jean-François Lyotard is one of the most celebrate…

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Stuart Hall

by James Procter

3.71 · 55 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2004 · 13 editions

James Procter's introduction places Hall's work wi…

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Antonio Gramsci. Routledge Critical Thinkers

by Steven J. Jones

3.00 · 2 Ratings · published 2006 · 2 editions

For readers encountering Gramsci for the first tim…

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Hannah Arendt. Routledge Critical Thinkers.

by Simon Swift

3.28 · 18 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2008 · 6 editions

Hannah Arendt's work offers a powerful critical en…

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Paul de Man

by Martin McQuillan

3.23 · 22 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2001 · 15 editions

Paul de Man's work is key to the American deconstr…

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Mikhail Bakhtin

by Alastair Renfrew

4.08 · 12 Ratings · published 2008 · 13 editions

Mikhail Bakhtin was one of the twentieth century’s…

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Emmanuel Levinas

by Sean Hand

3.32 · 31 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2007 · 12 editions

Best known for his theories of ethics and responsi…

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Walter Benjamin

by Barbara Engh

0.00 · published 2006 · 2 editions

An introduction to the work, key ideas and influen…

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Pierre Bourdieu

by Tracey Potts

4.00 · 1 Ratings · published 2010 · 2 editions

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Theorists of the City: Walter Benjamin, Henri Lefebvre and Michel de Certeau

by Jenny Bavidge

0.00 · published 2009 · 2 editions

Theories of the city have been fundamental to the …

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Paul Gilroy

by Paul Williams

3.14 · 7 Ratings · published 2012 · 10 editions

Paul Gilroy has been a controversial force at the …

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Theorists of Postmodernist Poetry: Charles Bernstein, Lyn Hejinian & Steve McCaffery

by Peter Jaeger

0.00 · published 2007 · 2 editions

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Frantz Fanon

by Pramod K. Nayar

3.86 · 21 Ratings · published 2012 · 9 editions

Frantz Fanon has established a position as a leadi…

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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

by Stephen Morton

3.85 · 39 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2002 · 15 editions

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak offers an overtly polit…

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Shelve Gilles Deleuze

Shelve Jacques Derrida

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Shelve Sigmund Freud

Shelve Giorgio Agamben

Shelve Jean-Paul Sartre

Shelve Jacques Lacan

Shelve Martin Heidegger

Shelve Slavoj Žižek

Shelve Theodor Adorno

Shelve Fredric Jameson

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Shelve Edward Said

Shelve Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

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Shelve Theorists of Modernist Poetry: T. S. Eliot, T. E. Hulme, Ezra Pound

Shelve Paul Virilio

Shelve Theorists of the Modernist Novel

Shelve Feminist Film Theorists

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Shelve American Theorists of the Novel: Henry James, Lionel Trilling and Wayne C. Booth

Shelve Julia Kristeva

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