Critical Inquiry, Vol 33, No. 1, Fall 2006

Founded 30 years ago, Critical Inquiry is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to publishing the best critical thought in the arts and humanities. Combining a commitment to rigorous scholarship with a vital concern for dialogue and debate, the journal presents articles by eminent and emerging 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.

Fall 2006  Volume 33  Number 1

Fredric Jameson
History and Elegy in Sokurov

Jeremi Szaniawski
Interview with Aleksandr Sokurov

Michael Taussig
What Color Is the Sacred?

Gil Anidjar
Secularism

Ian Hunter
The History of Theory

Art & Language
Voices Off: Reflections on Conceptual Art

N. Katherine Hayles
Traumas of Code

Michael Rothberg
Between Auschwitz and Algeria: Multidirectional Memory and the Counterpublic Witness

Slavoj Zizek
Schlagend, aber nicht Treffend!

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