Adventures in theory : a compact anthology

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Adventures in theory : a compact anthology

edited by Calvin Thomas

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

  • : PB

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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  • Introduction: Gearing up for adventures
  • Three excerpts from early writings / Karl Marx
  • On truth and lie in an extra-moral sense / Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The sign considered in its totality / Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Art as technique / Victor Shklovsky
  • The fact of blackness / Frantz Fanon
  • Myth today / Roland Barthes
  • Nietzsche, Freud, Marx / Michel Foucault
  • A critique of western metaphysics / Barbara Johnson
  • Différance / Jacques Derrida
  • Editor's interlude : two brief pieces on Lacanian psychoanalytic theory
  • On ideology / Louis Althusser
  • The traffic in women : notes on the "Political economy" of sex / Gayle Rubin
  • Freud's masterplot / Peter Brooks
  • From the introduction to orientalism? / Edward Said
  • Toward a concept of postmodernism / Ihab Hassan
  • Can the subaltern speak? / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
  • Imitation and gender insubordination / Judith Butler
  • The real of sexual difference / Slavoj Žižek
  • The future is kid stuff : queer theory, disidentification, and the death drive / Lee Edelman
  • Editor's afterword : (still) no kingdom (of the queer)

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