How does language work to construct our sense of reality? From where do we geta sense of who we are? What is the condition of our world today? The secondedition... » 

How does language work to construct our sense of reality? From where do we geta sense of who we are? What is the condition of our world today? The secondedition of this highly successful reader builds upon and expands the range ofwork recorded in the original in order to reflect the growing diversity of thefield of critical and cultural theory. The editors have been keen to maintainthe rigor of the first edition by including a comprehensive set of originalextracts from the works of critical and cultural theorists in thepoststructuralist and postmodern traditions. The reader is divided into sixsections Semiology Ideology Subjectivity Difference Gender and Race andPostmodernism and is designed to take the student of critical and culturaltheory through the tradition of thought from Saussures early writings onlanguage to contemporary commentary such as that of Baudrillard and Zizek onworld events like September 11. With the needs of students in mind the readeralso comes with clear and precise introductions to each of the sections aswell as invaluable summaries of each of the extracts published. «