Critique and Postcritique

Elizabeth S. Anker is Associate Professor of English at Cornell University and the author of Fictions of Dignity: Embodying Human Rights in World Literature.Rita Felski is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English at the University of Virginia and the author of many books, most recently, The Limits of Critique.

• Introduction / Elizabeth S. Anker and Rita Felski  1Part I. Countertraditions of Critique1. "Nothing Is Hidden": From Confusion to Clarity; or, Wittgenstein in Critique / Toril Moi  312. The Temptations: Donna Haraway, Feminist Objectivity, and the Problem of Critique / Heather Love  503. The Eighteenth-Century Origins of Critique / Simon During  73Part II. Styles of Reading4. Romancing the Real: Bruno Latour, Ian McEwan, and Postcritical Monism / Jennifer L. Fleissner  995. Symptomatic Reading Is a Problem of Form / Ellen Rooney  1276. A Heap of ClichÉ / C. Namwali Serpell  1537. Why We Love Coetzee; or, The Childhood of Jesus and the Funhouse of Critique / Elizabeth S. Anker  183Part III. Affects, Politics, Institutions8. Hope for Critique? / Christopher Castiglia  2119. What Are the Politics of Critique? The Function of Criticism at a Different Time / Russ Castronovo  23010. Tragedy and Translation: A Future for Critique in a Secular Age / John Michael  25211. Then and Now / Eric Hayot  279Bibliography  297About the Contributors  313Index  317

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