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Art 508 Critical Theory and Continental Aesthetics

   

Updates and course notices

 

For an overview of Critical Theory, according to the Frankfurt School tradition see Illuminations: The Critical Theory WebSite

For an excellently clear assessment of Jürgen Habermas's philosophy, especially his political thought, see the recent article in the New York Review of Books: Alan Ryan, "The Power of Positive Thinking," New York Review of Books, Jan. 16, 2003, pp. 43-46. See also an earlier article by Quentin Skinner ("Habermas's Reformation," New York Review of Books, Oct. 7, 1982)

"The Philosopher of Selfless Love," by Denis Donoghue (on Emmanuel Levinas)

"A World of Words," by Roger Shattuck

"Deconstructing Derrida," by Michael Wood

"Deconstructing Deconstruction," by Denis Donoghue

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Roger Caillois, "Mimicry and Psychasthenia"

"Psychoanalysis and the Aesthetic Subject," Leo Bersani

Mignon Nixon, "Introduction," from October 113

"A Conversation with Juliet Mitchell," from October 113

Juliet Mitchell, "Theory as an Object," from October 113