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The theory toolbox : critical concepts for the humanities, arts, and social sciences /

"This text involves students in understanding and using the tools of critical social and literary theory from the first day of class. It is an ideal first introduction before students encounter more difficult readings from critical and postmodern perspectives. Nealon and Giroux describe key con...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nealon, Jeffrey T. (Jeffrey Thomas)
Other Authors: Giroux, Susan Searls, 1968-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2012]
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Culture and politics series.
Subjects:
Social action.
Critical theory.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
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Table of Contents:
  • Why theory?
  • Author/ity
  • Reading
  • Subjectivity
  • Culture. Multiculturalism ; Popular culture ; Media culture ; Media culture 2.0
  • Ideology
  • History
  • Space/Time
  • Posts. Postmodernism ; Poststructuralism ; Postcolonialism
  • Differences. Gender ; Queer ; Race ; Class ; Concluding differences
  • Life. Biopower ; Resistance ; The economics of culture; or, The biopower business
  • Nature. Animals
  • Agency.