Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: From Structuralism to PostmodernityJohn Lechte 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. |
Contents
PREFACE | |
STRUCTURAL HISTORY | |
POSTSTRUCTURALIST THOUGHT | |
SEMIOTICS | |
SECOND GENERATION FEMINISM | |
POSTMARXISM | |
MODERNITY | |
POSTMODERNITY | |
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