Critical Inquiry has published the best critical thought in the arts and humanities since 1974. Combining a commitment to rigorous scholarship with a vital concern for dialogue and debate, the journal presents articles by eminent critics, scholars, and artists on a wide variety of issues central to contemporary criticism and culture.
In CI new ideas and reconsideration of those traditional in criticism and culture are granted a voice. The wide interdisciplinary focus creates surprising juxtapositions and linkages of concepts, offering new grounds for theoretical debate. In CI, authors entertain and challenge while illuminating such issues as improvisations, the life of things, Flaubert, and early modern women's writing. CI comes full circle with the electrically charged debates between contributors and their critics.
Vol. 33, No 3 (Printemps 2007)
ARTICLES
Harry Harootunian
Remembering the Historical Present
Michael Fried
Jeff Wall, Wittgenstein, and the Everyday
Charles Altieri
Tractatus Logico-Poeticus
John Limon
"The Shame of Abu Ghraib"
David Nirenberg
The Politics of Love and Its Enemies
Arnold Krupat
Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner and Its Audiences
Bruce Robbins
Critical Response I Not without Reason: A Response to Akeel Bilgrami
Akeel Bilgrami
Critical Response II Reply to Bruce Robbins's "Not without Reason"
Books of Critical Interest