Critical Theory: A Reader
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An anthology of readings and extracts providing a comprehensive introduction to the main schools and positions of critical theory. The book is divided into five sections; structuralism and poststructuralism, psychoanalytical theory, Marxism, feminism, and post-foundational ethics and politics. It includes a general introduction covering the field of critical theory and identifies founding theorists and movements with a bibliography and notes. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Introduction: Critical Theory: Canonic Questions 1: Structuralism and Post-Structuralism Introduction 1.1 Roland Barthes Myth Today 1.2 Jacques Derrida Positions 1.3 Julia Kristeva From Revolution in Poetic Language 1.4 Michel Foucault Truth and Power 1.5 Paul de Man The Resistance to Theory 1.6 J. Hillis Miller Reading Unreadability: de Man 2: Psychoanalytic Theory Introduction 2.1 Philip Rieff The Emergence of Psychological Man 2.2 Herbert Marcuse From Eros and Civilization: A philosophical inquiry into Freud 2.3 Kate Millett Freud and the Influence of Psychoanalytic Thought 2.4 Jacques Lacan The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience 2.5 Naomi Schor Female Paranoia: the case for psychoanalytic feminist criticism 2.6 Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari Psychoanalysis and Capitalism 3: Feminism Introduction 3.1 Heidi Hartmann The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: towards a more progressive union 3.2 Hélène Cixous Sorties: Out and Out: attacks/ways out/forays 3.3 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Feminism and Deconstruction, Again: negotiations 3.4 Trinh T. Minh-ha Difference: 'A special Third World women issue' 3.5 Monique Wittig The Straight Mind 3.6 Carol Gilligan From In a Different Voice: Psychological theory and women's development 4: Marxism Introduction 4.1 Walter Benjamin Theses on the Philosophy of History 4.2 Theodor W. Adorno Cultural Criticism and Society 4.3 Louis Althusser Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an investigation) 4.4 Raymond Williams Dominant, Residual, and Emergent 4.5 Fredric Jameson The Dialectic of Utopia and Ideology 4.6 Sebastiano Timpanaro Considerations on Materialism 4.7 Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe From Hegemony and Socialist Strategy 5: Post-Foundational Ethics and Politics Introduction 5.1 Richard Rorty The Priority of Democracy to Philosophy 5.2 Jürgen Habermas Questions and Counterquestions 5.3 Seyla Benhabib Communicative Ethics and the Claims of Gender, Community and Postmodernism 5.4 Jean-François Lyotard From The Differend: Phrases in dispute 5.5 Emmanuel Lévinas Ethics of the Infmite 5.6 Luce Irigaray Why Define Sexed Rights? 5.7 Martha C. Nussbaum Human Functioning and Social Justice: in defense of Aristotelian essentialism Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
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