Download or read book Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers written by John Lechte and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-08-21 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers surveys the most important figures who have influenced post-war thought. The reader is guided through structuralism, semiotics, post-Marxism and Annales history, on to modernity and postmodernity. With its comprehensive biographical and bibliographical information, this book provides a vital reference work of the last fifty years.