Theory for Classics A Student's Guide [Paperback]

This student's guide is a clear and concise handbook to the key connections between Classical Studies and critical theory in the twentieth century. Louise Hitchcock looks at the way Classics has been engaged across a number of disciplines. 

Beginning with four foundational figures  Freud, Marx, Nietzshe and Saussure  Hitchcock goes on to provide guided introductions of the major theoretical thinkers of the past century, from Adorno to Williams. Each entry offers biographical, theoretical and bibliographical information along with a discussion of each figure's relevance to Classical Studies and suggestions for future research. 

Theory for Classics, adapted from Theory for Religious Studies, by William E. Deal and Timothy K. Beal, is a brisk, thoughtful, provocative, and engaging title, which will be an essential first volume for anyone interested in the intersection between theory and classical studies today.

 

Part 1:Predecessors 1. Sigmund Freud  2. Karl Marx  3. Friedrich Nietzsche  4. Ferdinand de Saussure Part2: The Thoerists  5. Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno  6. Louis Althusser  7. Mikhail Bakhtin  8. Roland Barthes  9. Georges Bataille  10. Jean Baudrillard  11. Walter Benjamin  12. Pierre Bourdieu  13. Judith Butler  14. H?l?ne Cixous  15. Gilles Deleuze and F?lix Guattari  16. Jacques Derrida  17. Michel Foucault  18. Hans-Georg Gadamer  19. Martin Heideggerlí