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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R
S T U V W Y Z
abject
aboriginality
absent cause
Abstractionism
Absurdism
actant
active and reactive
actor
actor-network theory
actual and virtual
Adorno, Theodor
affect
affective fallacy
Agamben, Giorgio
agency
alienation (Entfremdung)
alienation-effect
allegory
alterity
alternate modernity
Althusser, Louis
ambivalence
anaclisis
analysand
analytic philosophy
anamorphosis
anaphora
anarchy
Anderson, Benedict
Anderson, Perry
androcentrism
androgyny
Annales School
anomie
anti-foundationalism
anti-psychiatry
anxiety (angst)
anxiety of influence
Anzaldúa, Gloria
aphanisis
aphasia
aporia
Appadurai, Arjun
apperception
archaeology
archetype
archive
Arendt, Hannah
Artaud, Antonin
art worlds
Auerbach, Eric
Augé, Marc
aura
Austin, John Langshaw
auteur theory (author theory)
authenticity
authority
autopoiesis
Avant-garde
axiomatic (L’axiomatique)
Bachelard, Gaston
bad faith (mauvaise foi)
Badiou, Alain
Bakhtin, Mikhail
Balibar, Étienne
Balint, Michael
bare life
Barthes, Roland
base and superstructure
Bataille, Georges
Baudrillard, Jean
Bauman, Zygmunt
Bazin, André
Beauvoir, Simone de
Beck, Ulrich
behaviourism
Bell, Daniel
Benjamin, Walter
Benveniste, Émile
Bergson, Henri
Bettelheim, Bruno
Bhabha, Homi
Bildungsroman
binary opposition
biological determinism
biopolitics
biopower
Blanchot, Maurice
blaxploitation (neologism constructed from black
exploitation)
Bloch, Ernst
Bloom, Allan
Bloom, Harold
body
body without organs
Bourdieu, Pierre
Braudel, Fernand
Brecht, Bertolt
Breton, André
bricolage
Butler, Judith
BWO
Calvino, Italo
Canguilhem, Georges
carnivalesque
Castoriadis, Cornelius
catachresis
cataphora
catharsis
cathexis
Certeau, Michel de
Césaire, Aimé
chiasmus
Chomsky, Noam
chora
chronotope
cinema-vérité (film-truth)
citizen
civil society
Cixous, Hélène
class
class consciousness
class struggle
COBRA
code
cognitive estrangement
cognitive map
collective unconscious
College of Sociology (Collège de Sociologie)
collocation
commodity
commodity fetishism
communicative action
community
competence and performance
complex
complexity theory
compulsion to repeat (Wiederholungszwang)
conceptual art
condensation (Verdichtung)
connotation
constative
constellation
constructivism
consumer society (la société de consummation)
contact zone
contradiction
contrapuntal reading
Cooper, David
cosmopolitanism
Creoleness (Créolité)
critical theory
Cultural Materialism
Cultural Studies
culture
culture industry
cynical reason (zynische Vernunft)
Dada
Daly, Mary
Dasein
death-drive (Todestriebe)
death of the author
Debord, Guy
Debray, Régis
decadence
decentred structure
decoding
decolonization
deconstruction
defamiliarization
deictic
Deleuze, Gilles
denotation and connotation
dependency theory
dérive (drift)
Derrida, Jacques
desire
desiring-machine
desiring-production
desublimation
deterritorialization
détournement (turnaround/reversal)
diachronic
dialectic
dialectical criticism
dialectical materialism
Dialectic of Enlightenment
dialogism
diaspora
diegesis
différance
differend (différend)
Dilthey, Wilhelm
discipline
discourse
discursive formation
discursive practice
displacement (Verschiebung)
dispositif
distributive justice
double-consciousness
dreamwork (Traumarbeit)
drive (Trieb)
Du Bois, W.E.B.
Durkheim, Émile
Eagleton, Terry
Eco, Umberto
ecocriticism
ecofeminism
École Freudienne de Paris (Freudian School of Paris)
ecological imperialism
écriture feminine (feminine writing)
ego (Ich)
ego-ideal (Ichideal)
Eisenstein, Sergei
Empire
empiricism
Empson, William
encoding/decoding
Engels, Friedrich
Enlightenment (Aufklärung)
epic
Epic Theatre
episteme
epistemological break
epistemology
epochē
