This anthology presents a series of texts in which major
twentieth-century thinkers engage in dialogue with their
predecessors.
* * Presents a series of texts in which major twentieth-century
thinkers engage in dialogue with their predecessors.
* * Offers an innovative way into understanding modern critical
thought.
* * Spans the period from Marx to the present day.
* * A conversation of ideas emerges between one generation and the
next.
* * Editorial material defines key terms and maps out contested
terrain.
* * Each piece is prefaced by contextualising notes and suggestions
for further reading.
Table of Content
Introduction: Criticism and/or Critique.
1. Lukacs on Marx.
George Lukas, ‘The Phenomenon of Reification’.
2. Heidegger on Nietzsche.
Martin Heidegger, ‘The Eternal Recurrence of the Same and the
Will to Power’.
3. Adorno on Freud.
Theodor Adorno, ‘Sociology and Psychology’.
4. Merleau-Ponty on Lukacs.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, ”Western’ Marxism’.
5. Marcuse on Sartre.
Herbert Marcuse, ‘Sartre’s Existentialism’.
6. Levinas on Husserl.
Emmanuel Levinas, ‘Reflections on Phenomenological
‘Technique”.
7. Gadamer on Heidegger.
Hans-Georg Gadamer, ‘Heidegger’s Later Philosophy’.
8. Deleuze on Nietzsche and Kant.
Gilles Deleuze, ‘Critique’.
9. Althusser on Marx.
Louis Althusser, ‘Grom Capital to Marx’s Philosophy’.
10. Derrida on Levi-Strauss.
Jacques Derrida, ‘Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of
the Human Sciences’.
11. Foucault on Derrida.
Michel Foucault, ‘My Body, This Paper, This Five’.
12. Habermas on Benjamin.
Jurgen Habermas, ‘Walter Benjamin: Consciousness-Raising or
Rescuing Critique’.
13. Rose on Lacan.
Jacqueline Rose, ‘Feminine Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the
Ecole Freudienne’.
14. Bhabha on Fanon.
Homi Bhabha, ‘Interrogating Identity: Frantz Fanon and the
Postcolonial Prerogative’.
15. Butler on Kristeva and Foucault.
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble.
16. Zizek on Zizek.
Slavoj Zizek, ‘Holding the Place’.
Index.
About the author
Drew Milne is the Judith E Wilson Lecturer in Drama and Poetry, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He is the co-editor, with Terry Eagleton, of Marxist Literary Theory (Blackwell Publishing, 1996) and the editor of the journal Parataxis: modernism and modern writing. He has published numerous essays on critical theory and poetics, including articles on Marxism, Kant, Derrida and Marcuse, along with forthcoming studies of Hegel, Benjamin and Adorno. His other books include Sheet Mettle (1994), Bench Marks (1998), The Damage (2001), Mars Disarmed (2002) and Go Figure (2003). For further information visit: http://drewmilne.tripod.com
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