Critical Theory ─ The Key Concepts

Critical Theory: The Key Concepts introduces over 300 widely-used terms, categories and ideas drawing upon well-established approaches like new historicism, postmodernism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, and narratology as well as many new critical theories of the last twenty years such as Actor-Network Theory, Global Studies, Critical Race Theory, and Speculative Realism. This book explains the key concepts at the heart of a wide range of influential theorists from Agamben to ?i?ek. Entries range from concise definitions to longer more explanatory essays and include terms such as:

• Aesthetics
• Desire
• Dissensus
• Dromocracy
• Hegemony
• Ideology
• Intersectionality
• Late Capitalism
• Performativity
• Race
• Suture

Featuring cross-referencing throughout, a substantial bibliography and index, Critical Theory: The Key Concepts is an accessible and easy-to-use guide. This book is an invaluable introduction covering a wide range of subjects for anyone who is studying or has an interest in critical theory (past and present).

Dino Felluga is Associate Professor of English at Purdue University. He is the author of The Perversity of Poetry: Romantic Ideology and the Popular Male Poet of Genius (SUNY Press), Associate Editor of Romanticism on the Net and is the author of the online Introductory Guide to Critical Theory.