Modern European Criticism and Theory : : A Critical Guide / / Julian Wolfreys.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Wolfreys, Julian,
• MitwirkendeR: Ahmad, Amir,; Baetens, Jan,; Baetens, Jean,; Brandt, Joan,; Brannigan, John,; Butzel, Marcia,; Chang, Heesok,; Colebrook, Claire,; Constable, Elizabeth,; Currie, Mark,; Ferretter, Luke,; Flesch, William,; Fluhr, Nicole,; Fóti, Véronique M.,; Gertz, SunHee Kim,; Green, Karen,; Hart, Kevin,; Higgins, Lynn A.,; Holub, Robert C.,; House, Ullrich Michael,; Kershner, R. Brandon,; Kruger, Loren,; Lane, Jeremy,; Leonard, Garry,; Lewis, Mitchell R.,; Lezra, Jacques,; MacCannell, Juliet Flower,; Mansfield, Nick,; McQuillan, Martin,; Montag, Warren,; Niro, Brian,; Plotnitsky, Arkady,; Punter, David,; Rabaté, Jean-Michel,; Rand, Nicholas T.,; Rocheleau, Alain-Michel,; Ross, Alison,; Shapiro, Stephen,; Surin, Kenneth,; Tambling, Jeremy,; Turim, Maureen,; Walsh, Michael,; Wiseman, Boris,; Womack, Kenneth,; Ziarek, Ewa,; de Geest, Dirk,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (448 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. René Descartes (1596±1650) and Baruch Spinoza (1632±1677): Beginnings -- 2. Immanuel Kant (1724±1804) and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770±1831) -- 3. Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (1770±1843) -- 4. Karl Marx (1818±1883) -- 5. Charles Baudelaire (1821±1867) and Steéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) -- 6. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) -- 7. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Through his invention of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud deeply -- 8. Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) and Structural Linguistics -- 9. Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) -- 10. Phenomenology -- 11. Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) and Georges Canguilhem (1904-1995): Epistemology in France -- 12. Jean Paulhan (1884-1969) and/versus Francis Ponge (1899-1988) -- 13. György Lukács (1885-1971) -- 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) -- 15. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) -- 16. Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) -- 17. Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) -- 18. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) -- 19. Reception Theory: Roman Ingarden (1893-1970), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900- 2002) and the Geneva School -- 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-) -- 21. Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) -- 22. Georges Bataille (1897-1962) and Maurice Blanchot (1907-) -- 23. Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) -- 24. Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) -- 25. The Reception of Hegel and Heidegger in France: Alexandre Kojève (1902-1968), Jean Hyppolite (1907-1968), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) -- 26. Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), Albert Camus (1913-1960) and Existentialism -- 27. Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) -- 28. Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) and French Feminism -- 29. Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-) -- 30. Jean Genet (1910-1986) -- 31. Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) -- 32. Roland Barthes (1915-1980) -- 33. French Structuralism: A. J. Greimas (1917-1992), Tzvetan Todorov (1939-) and Gérard Genette (1930-) -- 34. Louis Althusser (1918-1990) and his Circle -- 35. Reception Theory and Reader-Response: Hans-Robert Jauss (1922-1997), Wolfgang Iser (1926-) and the School of Konstanz -- 36. Jean-François Lyotard (1925-1998) and Jean Baudrillard (1929-): The Suspicion of Metanarratives -- 37. The Social and the Cultural: Michel de Certeau (1925-1986), Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) and Louis Marin (1931-1992) -- 38. Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) and Félix Guattari (1930-1992) -- 39. Michel Foucault (1926-1984) -- 40. Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) -- 41. Luce Irigaray (1930-) -- 42. Christian Metz (1931-1993) -- 43. Guy Debord (1931-1994) and the Situationist International -- 44. Umberto Eco (1932-) -- 45. Modernities:Paul Virilio (1932-),Gianni Vattimo (1936-), Giorgio Agamben (1942-) -- 46. Hélène Cixous (1938-) -- 47. Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940-) and Jean-Luc Nancy (1940-) -- 48. Julia Kristeva (1941-) -- 49. Slavoj Žižek (1949-) -- 50. Cahiers du Cinéma(1951-) -- 51. Critical Fictions:Experiments in Writing from Le Nouveau Roman to the Oulipo -- 52. Tel Quel(1960-1982) -- 53. Other French Feminisms: Sarah Kofman (1934-1994), Monique Wittig (1935-), Michèle Le Doeuff (1948-) -- 54. Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism in France -- Contributors -- Index