Key Contemporary Concepts

From cybernetics to quantum theory, from ideology to power, from aesthetics to mimesis, this book spans a range of disciplines to provide an insight into the current scientific and intellectual state of society. Written by the author of the international bestsellerFifty Key Contemporary Thinkers (Routledge, 1994) this ambitious pedagogical and intellectual project dazzles with insight and the breadth of knowledge presented.

An essential roadmap to the key concepts which frame our understanding of society and culture. From cybernetics to quantum theory, from ideology to power, from aesthetics to mimesis, this book spans a range of disciplines to provide an insight into the current scientific and intellectual state of society.

A Note on the Text
Introduction
A Abjection Aesthetics Alienation Allegory Analogue Analytic-Synthetic Arbitrary Atonality
B Beauty Being Biotechnology Blasé Body
C Chance Clone Code Communication Community Complexity Culture Cybernetics Cyberspace Cyborg
D Deconstruction Dictionary-Encyclopedia Diegesis Différance Difference-Individuality Differend Digital
E Economy Encyclopedia (see Dictionary-Encyclopedia) Entropy Epistemology Eros-Eroticism Event Exchange
F Family Fantasy / Phantasy Fantasm Fractal Freedom Fuzzy Logic
G General Will Gift Globalisation Governmentality Grammatology
H Habitus History
I Icon Identification Identity Ideology Image Imaginary Imagination Immanent/Immanence-Transcendent / Transcendence Index Information Interpretation
J Justice
K Klanfarbenmelodie Knowledge
L Labour-power Legitimacy Life Local Logos-Mythos Love
M Memory Metaphor Metaphysics Mimesis Modernity Money Montage Mythos (see Logos-Mythos)
N Necessity Network Nihilism
O Object Ontology Other
P Panopticon Phantasy / Phantasm (see Fantasy / Fantasm) Pixel Postmodernity Power Profane (see Sacred-Profane)
Q Quantum
R Responsibility Ressentiment Rhizome Risk-Society
S Sacred-Profane Semiotic Sign: Signifier/Signified Simulacrum Spectacle Subject Synthetic (see Analytical-Synthetic)
T Technics Theory Thermodynamics Time Transcendence (see Immanent/Immanence / Transcendent / Transcendence) Truth
U Unconscious Universal
V Value Virtual (see Cyberspace) Virus, W Work Writing
X Xenophobia, Z Zeno′s Paradox