BADMINGTON, Neil et Julia THOMAS, The Routledge Critical and Cultural Theory Reader, New York / London, Routledge, 2008, 464 p.
ISBN 978-0-415-43309-9
RÉSUMÉ
Everything is open to question. Nothing is sacred. Critical and cultural theory invites a rethinking of some of ourmost basic assumptions about who we are, how we behave, and how weinterpret the world around us. The Routledge Critical and Cultural Theory Reader bringstogether 29 key pieces from the last century and a half that haveshaped the field. Topics include: subjectivity, language, gender,ethnicity, sexuality, the body, the human, class, culture, everydaylife, literature, psychoanalysis, technology, power, and visuality. Thechoice of texts, together with the editors' introduction and glossary,will allow newcomers to begin from first principles, while the use ofunabridged readings will also make the volume suitable for thoseundertaking more specialized work. Material is arrangedchronologically, but the editors have suggested thematic pathwaysthrough the selections.
TABLE DES MATIÈRES
Pathways Acknowledgments Editors' Introduction
1. Karl Marx, ‘Preface(to a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy)', 1859.
2.Sigmund Freud, 'A Note on the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis', 1912.
3.Ferdinand de Saussure, ‘Linguistic Value', 1916.
4. Joan Riviere,‘Womanliness as a Masquerade', 1929.
5. Walter Benjamin, ‘The Work ofArt in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', 1936.
6. Jacques Lacan,‘The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed inPsychoanalytic Experience', 1949.
7. Frantz Fanon, ‘The Fact ofBlackness', 1952.
8. Raymond Williams, ‘Culture is Ordinary', 1958.
9.Henri Lefebvre, ‘The Social Text', 1961.
10. Hayden White, ‘The Burdenof History', 1966.
11. Roland Barthes, ‘The Death of the Author', 1968.
12. Jacques Derrida, ‘Differance', 1968.
13. Michel de Certeau,‘Walking in the City', 1974.
14. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari,‘What is a Minor Literature?', 1975.
15. Michel Foucault,‘Panopticism', 1975.
16. Laura Mulvey, ‘Visual Pleasure and NarrativeCinema', 1975.
17. Edward Said, Introduction to Orientalism, 1978.
18.Stuart Hall, ‘Encoding/Decoding', 1980.
19. Julia Kristeva,‘Approaching Abjection', 1980.
20. Jean Baudrillard, ‘Simulacra andScience Fiction', 1981.
21. Jean-François Lyotard, ‘Answer to theQuestion: What is the Postmodern?', 1982.
22. Gayle Rubin, ‘ThinkingSex: Notes Towards a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality',1984.
23. Donna J. Haraway, ‘A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science,Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s', 1985.
24. GloriaAnzaldúa, ‘How to Tame a Wild Tongue', 1987.
25. Judith Butler,‘Imitation and Gender Insubordination', 1991.
26. Chandra TalpadeMohanty, ‘Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and ColonialDiscourses', 1991.
27. Giorgio Agamben, Introduction to Homo Sacer:Sovereign Power and Bare Life, 1995.
28. Lauren Berlant and MichaelWarner, ‘What Does Queer Theory Teach Us About X?', 1995
29. MarjorieGarber, ‘Who Owns "Human Nature"?', 2003.
Glossary Index
BIOGRAPHIE
Neil Badmington is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Criticism and English Literature at Cardiff University. He is the author of Alien Chic: Posthumanism and the Other Within (2004) and editor of Posthumanism (2000).
Julia Thomas is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University. She is the author of Victorian Narrative Painting (2000), Pictorial Victorians: The Inscription of Values in Word and Image (2004), and editor of Reading Images (2000).