Table of Contents for The Aims of Representation

The Aims of Representation
Edited by Murray Krieger

INTRODUCTION: THE LITERARY, THE TEXTUAL, THE SOCIAL

Murray Krieger

1.JUDICIOUSNESS IN DISPUTE, OR KANT AFTER MARX

Jean-Franc;ois Lyotard

2.NARRATIVE, HETEROGENEITY, AND THE QUESTION OF THE POLITICAL: BAKHTIN AND LYOTARD

David Carroll

3.FOUCAULT, POST-STRUCTURALISM, AND THE MODE OF INFORMATION

Mark Poster

4.SURPLUS ECONOMIES: DECONSTRUCTION IDEOLOGY AND THE HUMANITIES

John Carlos Rowe

5.ACTION, SUBJECTIVITY, AND THE CONSTITUTION OF MEANING

Anthony Giddens

6.HISTORY, APPROPRIATION, AND THE USESOF REPRESENTATION IN MODERN NARRATIVE

Robert Weimann

7.REPRESENTATION: A PERFORMATIVE ACT

Wolfgang Iser

8.CRITICISM TODAY

Dominick LaCapra

9.CAPITALIST CULTURE AND THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM

Stephen Greenblatt

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