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Magisterial lectures on the major figures of French theory from 'America’s leading Marxist critic'
List of contents
Editor’s PrefaceIntroduction: The Seminar as a Collective Book
1
Les Cinquante Glorieuses2 The Uses of the Verb to Be
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Sartre}
3 Reification or Otherness
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Sartre}
4 After Sartre
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Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir, Fanon}
5 After the Liberation
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Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir, Fanon}
6 Glory to the Binary Opposition!
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Saussure, Levi-Strauss}
7 Saussure in Brazil
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Levi-Strauss}
8 Victory of the Paradigmatic
{
Levi-Strauss, Barthes}
9 Utopia: But Where Does Power Come From?
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Baudrillard, Clastres}
10 Enter Lacan
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Lacan}
11 Genealogy of the Look
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Lacan}
12 Class Struggle in Theory
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Althusser}
13 The Lonely Hour of the Last Instance
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Althusser}
14 How to Avoid Meaning
{
Derrida}
15 Linguistic Politics of the Third Way
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Derrida}
16 Feminism as Transgression
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Beauvoir, Wittig, Irigaray}
17 Mothers and Moving Images
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Kristeva, Comolli, Baudry}
18 "Moi, Michel Foucault..."
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Foucault}
19 The Prison-House of Subjectification
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Foucault}
20 Nominalism of the Photograph
{
Barthes}
21 Philosophy’s Postmodern Theater
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Deleuze}
22 Joyousness of Gilles Deleuze
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Deleuze}
23 Return of le Politique
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Rancière, Balibar, Nancy}
24 Simulating the End of History
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Debord, Baudrillard}
Envoi: Theory after Demarxification
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Latour, Meillassoux, Stiegler, Laruelle}
Index
About the author
Fredric Jameson is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has over the last three decades developed a richly nuanced vision of Western culture's relation to political economy. He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, The Cultural Turn, A Singular Modernity, The Modernist Papers, Archaeologies of the Future, Brecht and Method, Ideologies of Theory, Valences of the Dialectic, The Hegel Variations and Representing Capital.
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Magisterial lectures on the major figures of French theory from 'America's leading Marxist critic'
