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Jonathan Culler
and Kevin Lamb
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Introduction: Dressing Up, Dressing Down 1
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Part 1. In Search of a Common Language; or, Language Debates and the History of Philosophy
- 1. Difficult Style and “Illustrious” Vernaculars 15
- 2. Hume’s Learned and Conversable Worlds 29
- 3. Bad Writing and Good Philosophy 43
- 4. The Metaphysics of Clarity and the Freedom of Meaning 58
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Part 2. Institutions, Publics, Intellectual Labor
- 5. Feminism’s Broken English 75
- 6. The Resistance of Theory; or,The Worth of Agony 95
- 7. Styles of Intellectual Publics 106
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Part 3. Modernist Poetics and Critical Badness
- 8. On Difficulty, the Avant-Garde, and Critical Moribundity 129
- 9. Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics 139
- 10. Bad Writing 157
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Part 4. Address to the Other: Ethics and Acknowledgment
- 11. The Morality of Form; or,What’s “Bad” about “Bad Writing”? 171
- 12. The Politics of the Production of Knowledge 181
- 13. Values of Difficulty 199
- Contributors 217
- Index 221
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Introduction: Dressing Up, Dressing Down 1
-
Part 1. In Search of a Common Language; or, Language Debates and the History of Philosophy
- 1. Difficult Style and “Illustrious” Vernaculars 15
- 2. Hume’s Learned and Conversable Worlds 29
- 3. Bad Writing and Good Philosophy 43
- 4. The Metaphysics of Clarity and the Freedom of Meaning 58
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Part 2. Institutions, Publics, Intellectual Labor
- 5. Feminism’s Broken English 75
- 6. The Resistance of Theory; or,The Worth of Agony 95
- 7. Styles of Intellectual Publics 106
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Part 3. Modernist Poetics and Critical Badness
- 8. On Difficulty, the Avant-Garde, and Critical Moribundity 129
- 9. Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics 139
- 10. Bad Writing 157
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Part 4. Address to the Other: Ethics and Acknowledgment
- 11. The Morality of Form; or,What’s “Bad” about “Bad Writing”? 171
- 12. The Politics of the Production of Knowledge 181
- 13. Values of Difficulty 199
- Contributors 217
- Index 221