What might a 'theory of everything' look like? Is science an ideology? Who were Adorno, Horkheimer or the Frankfurt School? The decades since the 1960s have seen an explosion in the production of critical theories. Deconstructionists, poststructuralists, postmodernists, second-wave feminists, new historicists, cultural materialists, postcolonialists, black critics and queer theorists, among a host of others, all vie for our attention. Stuart Sim and Borin Van Loon's incisive graphic guide provides a route through the tangled jungle of competing ideas and provides an essential historical context, situating these theories within tradition of critical analysis going back to the rise of Marxism. They present the essential methods and objectives of each theoretical school in an incisive and accessible manner, and pay special attention to recurrent themes and concerns that have preoccupied a century of critical theoretical activity.

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Introducing Critical Theory: A Graphic Guide (Introducing...)

Sim, Stuart; Van Loon, Borin

Sim, Professor Stuart

Icon ; Totem Books ; Distributed in the USA by National Book Network

Wizard Books

Introducing (Thriplow, England), London, USA, Lanham, Md, 2009

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Bookwire GmbH, London, 2009

Introducing, Duxford, 2009

Revised edition, US, 2014

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Title Page
Copyright
Contents
The Theory of Everything
The Grand Narrative of Marxism
The Politics of Criticism
The Synthetic or Magpie Approach
Bringing Theory to the Surface
Hidden Agendas and Ideologies
Theoretical Reflexivity
Science Studies: the Paradigm Model
Postmodernism and Science
The Sokal Scandal
In Defence of Big Science
Origins of Marxism
Absolute Spirit: the Logic of History
The Communist Manifesto
Infra- and Super-structures
Economic Determinism
The Hidden Text
Mapping the Origins of Critical Theory
Reflection Theory
Zhdanovite Socialist Realism
The Battle for Class Consciousness
Lukácsian Theories of the Novel
A Critical Realist View of Alienation
The Theory of Hegemony
Cultural Criticism
The Frankfurt School’s Critical Theory
The Progress of Irrationalism
One-dimensional or “Non-oppositional” Society
The Alternative or “New Left”
The Politics of Avant-garde Art
Against Totality – and Totalitarianism
Theory of the Aura
In Combat with Tradition
Brecht’s Epic Theatre
Russian Formalism
The Grammar of Narrative
Shklovsky’s Defamiliarization
Bakhtin’s Plural or Dialogic Meanings
Intertextuality or Heteroglossia
Jakobson’s Semiotic Linguistics
The Psychoanalytic Unconscious
Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory
Structuralism and Critical Theory
What is Structuralism?
The Structuralist Unconscious
Lacan and Structuralist Psychoanalysis
Lacan’s Imaginary and Symbolic Realms
Barthes and the Empire of Signs
The Common Structure of Narratives
The Death of the Author
Readerly versus Writerly Texts
The “Death of Man”
Intertextuality and the Symbolic Order
Eco’s Labyrinth
The Structuralist Marxism of Althusser
Structuralist Marxism and Literary Criticism
Genetic Structuralism
Reader-Response Theory
Poststructuralism: the Breakdown of Sign-Systems
Poststructuralist Deconstruction
Différance and Meaning
Deconstructing “Binary Oppositions”
The Order of Things
The Rise of Scientific Discipline
Uncovering the Hidden Discourse
The End of Humanism
Lyotard’s “Differends”
The Postmodern Condition
Postmodern Science
Scientific Narrative and Relativism
The Enlightenment, “Unfinished Project”
The Problem of Value Judgement
Paganism or Benthamism
Postmodernism in the Service of Capitalism
The “Case-by-Case” Event
Techno-science and the human
A Feminist Response to the Inhuman
The Sociology of Seduction
Against the Marxist Fetishism of Production
A World of Hyperreal Simulacra
Disneyworld America
When Did Postmodernism Begin?
The Double-Coding of Postmodernism
Postmodern Pastiche and Irony
Anti-Oedipus and Schizoanalysis
Anti-Oedipal Networks of Communication
Stay Sane – Keep Moving
Post-Marxism: The Breakdown of Marxism
A Post-Marxist Answer to Capitalism
The Failures of Marxian Theory
Beyond Doctrinaire Marxism
The Spectre of Marx
A Plural Marx
The “End of History”
Our Complicity in Ideology
The New Historicism
Cultural Materialism
A Politicized Shakespeare
The Theory of Postcolonialism
Fanon’s Anti-Colonialism
Poststructuralist Hybridity
Subaltern Studies
Theory as Sexual Politics
A Feminist Literary Canon
Feminism and Marxism
Post-Marxist Feminism
The Theory of Gynocriticism
Against Patriarchy
The Surplus Woman
Against the Male Canon
“Heroinism” in Women’s Literature
French Feminism: écriture féminine
The Undecidable of écriture féminine
Does Difference Lead to Separatism?
Two Champions of Modern Feminism
Postfeminism and Positive Womanhood
A Parallel with Post-Marxism
Queer Theory and Sexual Identity
Black Criticism
Black Feminist Criticism
Theory is Power
Critical Theory and a Pluralist World
Further Reading
Glossary
Index

The last few decades have seen an explosion in the production of critical theories, with deconstructionists, poststructuralists, postmodernists, second-wave feminists, new historicists, cultural materialists, postcolonialists, black critics and queer theorists, among a host of others, all vying for our attention. The world around us can look very different on the critical theory applied to it. This vast range of interpretations can leave one feeling confused and frustrated. This book provides a route through the tangled jungle of competing theories

Offers a route through the tangled jungle of competing ideas and provides an essential historical context, situating these theories within tradition of critical analysis going back to the rise of Marxism. This book presents the essential methods and objectives of each theoretical school

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