Poststructuralism and Critical Theory's Second Generation

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"Poststructuralism and Critical Theory's Second Generation" analyses the major themes and developments in a period that brought continental philosophy to the forefront of scholarship in a variety of humanities and social science disciplines and that set the agenda for philosophical thought on the continent and elsewhere from the 1960s to the present. Focusing on the years 1960-1984, the volume examines the major figures associated with poststructuralism and the second generation of critical theory, the two dominant movements that emerged in the 1960s: Althusser, Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Lyotard, Irigaray, and Habermas. Influential thinkers such as Serres, Bourdieu, and Rorty, who are not easily placed in "standard" histories of the period, are also covered. Beyond this, thematic essays engage with issues as diverse as the Nietzschean legacy, the linguistic turn in continental thinking, the phenomenological inheritance of Gadamer and Ricoeur, the influence of psychoanalysis, the emergence of feminist thought and a philosophy of sexual difference, the renewal of the critical theory tradition, and the importation of continental philosophy into literary theory. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Series Preface Contributors Introduction 1. French Nietzscheanism 2. Louis Althusser 3. Michel Foucault 4. Gilles Deleuze 5. Jacques Derrida 6. Jean-François Lyotard 7. Pierre Bourdieu and the practice of philosophy 8. Michel Serres 9. Jürgen Habermas 10. Second generation critical theory 11. Gadamer, Ricoeur, and the legacy of phenomenology 12. The linguistic turn in continental philosophy 13. Psychoanalysis and desire 14. Luce Irigaray 15. Cixous, Kristeva, and Le Doeuff: three “French feminists” 16. Deconstruction and the Yale School of literary theory 17. Rorty among the continentals Chronology Bibliography Index