Modern European Criticism and Theory: A Critical Guide

Julian Wolfreys

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2006

Modern European Criticism and Theory

A Critical Guide

Julian Wolfreys

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748626793

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About this book

Modern European Criticism and Theory offers the reader a comprehensive critical overview of the widespread and profound contest of ideas within European 'theory'. The book focuses primarily on the thought of major voices in poetics, philosophy, linguistics, and psychoanalysis, as well as in literary and cultural studies from the Enlightenment to the present day.

Examining how conceptions of subjectivity, identity and gender have been questioned, the more than 50 essays written by acknowledged experts in their fields critically assess the ways in which we think, see, and act in the world, as well as the ways in which we represent such thought psychologically, politically, and culturally.

A further reading list accompanies each chapter.

Key Features:

Breadth of coverage from Descartes and Spinoza to Derrida, Lyotard and Zizek; from Phenomenology to French Feminisms and Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism.
Focus on the history of modern criticism.
Accessibly written.
Theoretical debates are set in full historical, cultural and philosophical contexts.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1. René Descartes (1596±1650) and Baruch Spinoza (1632±1677): Beginnings Warren Montag Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Immanuel Kant (1724±1804) and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770±1831) Jacques Lezra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
3. Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (1770±1843) Véronique M. Fóti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
4. Karl Marx (1818±1883) Robert C. Holub Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
5. Charles Baudelaire (1821±1867) and Steéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) Elizabeth Constable Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
6. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) Robert C. Holub Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
7. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Through his invention of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud deeply Juliet Flower MacCannell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
8. Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) and Structural Linguistics Kenneth Womack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
9. Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) Claire Colebrook Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
10. Phenomenology Ullrich Michael House Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
11. Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) and Georges Canguilhem (1904-1995): Epistemology in France Alison Ross and Amir Ahmad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
12. Jean Paulhan (1884-1969) and/versus Francis Ponge (1899-1988) Jan Baetens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
13. György Lukács (1885-1971) Mitchell R. Lewis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
14. Russian Formalism, the Moscow Linguistics Circle, and Prague Structuralism: Boris Eichenbaum (1886- 1959), Jan Mukarovsky (1891-1975), Victor Shklovsky (1893-1984), Yuri Tynyanov (1894-1943), Roman Jakobson (1896-1982) Kenneth Womack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
15. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) William Flesch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
16. Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) Claire Colebrook Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
17. Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) Stephen Shapiro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
18. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) Jeremy Tambling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
19. Reception Theory: Roman Ingarden (1893-1970), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900- 2002) and the Geneva School Luke Ferretter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
20. The Frankfurt School, the Marxist Tradition, Culture and Critical Thinking: Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), Jürgen Habermas (1929-) Kenneth Surin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
21. Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) R. Brandon Kershner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
22. Georges Bataille (1897-1962) and Maurice Blanchot (1907-) Arkady Plotnitsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
23. Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) Loren Kruger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
24. Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) Juliet Flower MacCannell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
25. The Reception of Hegel and Heidegger in France: Alexandre Kojève (1902-1968), Jean Hyppolite (1907-1968), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) Jean-Michel Rabaté Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
26. Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), Albert Camus (1913-1960) and Existentialism Mark Currie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
27. Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) Kevin Hart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
28. Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) and French Feminism Karen Green Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
29. Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-) Boris Wiseman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
30. Jean Genet (1910-1986) Alain-Michel Rocheleau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
31. Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) Martin McQuillan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
32. Roland Barthes (1915-1980) Nick Mansfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
33. French Structuralism: A. J. Greimas (1917-1992), Tzvetan Todorov (1939-) and Gérard Genette (1930-) Dirk de Geest Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
34. Louis Althusser (1918-1990) and his Circle Warren Montag Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
35. Reception Theory and Reader-Response: Hans-Robert Jauss (1922-1997), Wolfgang Iser (1926-) and the School of Konstanz Jeremy Lane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	278
36. Jean-François Lyotard (1925-1998) and Jean Baudrillard (1929-): The Suspicion of Metanarratives Garry Leonard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
37. The Social and the Cultural: Michel de Certeau (1925-1986), Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) and Louis Marin (1931-1992) Brian Niro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	292
38. Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) and Félix Guattari (1930-1992) Claire Colebrook Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
39. Michel Foucault (1926-1984) John Brannigan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	310
40. Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) Kevin Hart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
41. Luce Irigaray (1930-) Ewa Ziarek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	324
42. Christian Metz (1931-1993) Marcia Butzel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
43. Guy Debord (1931-1994) and the Situationist International Lynn A. Higgins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
44. Umberto Eco (1932-) SunHee Kim Gertz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
45. Modernities:Paul Virilio (1932-),Gianni Vattimo (1936-), Giorgio Agamben (1942-) David Punter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	354
46. Hélène Cixous (1938-) Juliet Flower MacCannell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
47. Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940-) and Jean-Luc Nancy (1940-) Heesok Chang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
48. Julia Kristeva (1941-) Joan Brandt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	380
49. Slavoj Žižek (1949-) Michael Walsh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	388
50. Cahiers du Cinéma(1951-) Maureen Turim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	396
51. Critical Fictions:Experiments in Writing from Le Nouveau Roman to the Oulipo Jean Baetens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	402
52. Tel Quel(1960-1982) Jean-Michel Rabaté Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	409
53. Other French Feminisms: Sarah Kofman (1934-1994), Monique Wittig (1935-), Michèle Le Doeuff (1948-) Nicole Fluhr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	417
54. Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism in France Nicholas T. Rand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	424
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	429
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	431

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 448
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: April 21, 2006
ISBN: 9780748626793