Modern European Criticism and Theory

Julian Wolfreys is Professor of Modern Literature and Culture, with the Department of English and Drama, at Loughborough University. He has published extensively on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature, and theoretical approaches to literature. His most recent books are Thomas Hardy and Literature, in Theory. He is currently working on The Derrida Wordbook (EUP) and a study of the relation between philosophy and poetry in the nineteenth century.

Preface; 1. Rene Descartes and Baruch Spinoza: Beginnings, Warren Montag; 2. Immanuel Kant and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Jacques Lazra; 3. Johann Christian Friedrich Holderlin, Veronique M. Foti; 4. Karl Marx, Robert C. Holub; 5. Charles Baudelaire and Stephane Mallarme, Elizabeth Constable; 6. Friedrich Nietzsche, Robert C. Holub; 7. Sigmund Freud, Juliet Flower MacCannell; 8. Ferdinand de Saussure and Structural Linguistics, Kenneth Womack; 9. Edmund Husserl, Claire Colebrook; 10. Phenomenology, Ullrich Michael Haase; 11. Gaston Bachelard and George Canguilhem: Epistemology in France, Alison Ross and Amir Ahmadi; 12. Jean Paulhan and/versus Francis Ponge, Jan Baetens; 13. Gyorgy Lukacs, Mitchell R. Lewis; 14. Russian Formalism, the Moscow Linguistics Circle, and Prague Structuralism: Boris Eichenbaum, Jan Mukarovsky, Victor Shklovsky, Yuri Tynyanov, Roman Jakobson, Kenneth Womack; 15. Ludwig Wittgenstein, William Flesch; 16. Martin Heidegger, Claire Colebrook; 17. Antonio Gramsci, Stephen Shapiro; 18. Walter Benjamin, Jeremy Tambling; 19. Reception Theory: Roman Ingarden, Hans-Georg Gadamer and the Geneva School, Luke Ferretter; 20. The Frankfurt School, the Marxist Tradition, Culture and Critical Thinking: Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno, Jurgen Habermas, Kenneth Surin; 21. Mikhail Bakhtin, R. Brandon Kershner; 22. Georges Bataille and Maurice Blanchot, Arkady Plotnitsky; 23. Bertolt Brecht, Loren Kruger; 24. Jacques Lacan, Juliet Flower MacCannell; 25. The Reception of Hegel and Heidegger in France: Alexandre Kojeve, John Hyppolite, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean Michel Rabate; 26. Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and Existentialism, Mark Currie; 27. Emmanuel Levinas, Kevin Hart; 28. Simone de Beauvoir and French Feminism, Karen Green; 29. Claude Levi-Strauss, Boris Wiseman; 30. Jean Genet, Alain-Michel Rocheleau; 31. Paul Ricoeur, Martin McQuillan; 32. Roland Barthes, Nick Mansfield; 33. French Structuralism: A. J. Greimas, Tzvetan Todorov and Gerard Genette, Dirk de Geest; 34. Louis Althusser and his Circle, Warren Montag; 35. Reception Theory and Reader-Response: Hans-Robert Jauss, Wolfgang Iser, and the School of Konstanz, Jeremy Lane; 36. Jean-Francois Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard: The Suspicion of Metanarratives, Garry Leonard; 37. The Social and the Cultural: Michel de Certeau, Pierre Bourdieu and Louis Marin, Brian Niro; 38. Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Claire Colebrook; 39. Michel Foucault, John Brannigan; 40. Jacques Derrida, Kevin Hart; 41. Luce Irigaray, Ewa Ziarek; 42. Christian Metz, Marcia Butzel; 43. Guy Debord and the Situationist International, Lynn A. Higgins; 44. Umberto Eco, SunHee Kim Gertz; 45. Modernities: Paul Virilio, Gianni Vattimo, Giorgio Agamben, David Punter; 46. Helene Cixous, Juliet Flower MacCannell; 47. Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy, Heesok Chang; 48. Julia Kristeva, Joan Brandt; 49. Slavoj Zizek, Michael Walsh; 50. Cahiers du Cinema, Maureen Turim; 51. Critical Fictions: Experiments in Writing from Le Noveau Roman to the Oulipo, Jean Baetens; 52. Tel Quel, Jean-Michel Rabate; 53. Other French Feminisms: Sarah Kofman, Monique Wittig, Michele Le Doeuff, Nicole Fluhr; 54. Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism in France, Nicholas T. Rand; Contributors; Index.