The Years of Theory

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Fredric Jameson

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Magisterial lectures on the major figures of French theory from 'America’s leading Marxist critic'

Zusammenfassung
Magisterial lectures on the major figures of French theory from 'America's leading Marxist critic'

Inhalt

Editor’s Preface
Introduction: The Seminar as a Collective Book

1 Les Cinquante Glorieuses
2 The Uses of the Verb to Be
{Sartre}
3 Reification or Otherness
{Sartre}
4 After Sartre
{Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir, Fanon}
5 After the Liberation
{Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir, Fanon}
6 Glory to the Binary Opposition!
{Saussure, Levi-Strauss}
7 Saussure in Brazil
{Levi-Strauss}
8 Victory of the Paradigmatic
{Levi-Strauss, Barthes}
9 Utopia: But Where Does Power Come From?
{Baudrillard, Clastres}
10 Enter Lacan
{Lacan}
11 Genealogy of the Look
{Lacan}
12 Class Struggle in Theory
{Althusser}
13 The Lonely Hour of the Last Instance
{Althusser}
14 How to Avoid Meaning
{Derrida}
15 Linguistic Politics of the Third Way
{Derrida}
16 Feminism as Transgression
{Beauvoir, Wittig, Irigaray}
17 Mothers and Moving Images
{Kristeva, Comolli, Baudry}
18 "Moi, Michel Foucault..."
{Foucault}
19 The Prison-House of Subjectification
{Foucault}
20 Nominalism of the Photograph
{Barthes}
21 Philosophy’s Postmodern Theater
{Deleuze}
22 Joyousness of Gilles Deleuze
{Deleuze}
23 Return of le Politique
{Rancière, Balibar, Nancy}
24 Simulating the End of History
{Debord, Baudrillard}

Envoi: Theory after Demarxification
{Latour, Meillassoux, Stiegler, Laruelle}

Index