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.
Volume 32, Number 2, Winter 2006:
ARTICLES:
Leo Bersani
Psychoanalysis and the Aesthetic Subject
Bill Brown
Reification, Reanimation, and the American Uncanny
Anne H. Stevens and Jay Williams
The Footnote, in Theory
Slavoj Zizek
A Plea for a Return to Différance (with a Minor Pro Domo Sua)
Ruth HaCohen
Between Noise and Harmony: The Oratorical Moment in the Musical Entanglements of Jews and Christians
Daniel Dor
Is There Anything We Might Call Dissent in Israel? (And, If There Is, Why Isn't There?)
Linda Williams
Of Kisses and Ellipses: The Long Adolescence of American Movies
Loren Glass
Redeeming Value: Obscenity and Anglo-American Modernism
CRITICAL RESPONSE:
Frances Ferguson
I. Why Is This Man So Angry? A Reply to Loren Glass
Loren Glass
II. Anger Management: A Response to Frances Ferguson
ON WAYNE BOOTH:
W. J. T. Mitchell
I. Wayne Booth, 1921
2005
James Redfield
II. For Wayne Booth at His Religious Memorial Service in Chicago