5. Playing at Judgment: Aporias of Liberal Freedom in Kant’s Critique of Judgment

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Toward a Literary History for the Twenty-First Century 3
5. Part I. Acting: Liberal Subjects and Objects
6. 1. Posthuman Capital, or I ♥ Apocalypse 31
7. 2. The Wish to Be an Object 54
8. Part II. Socializing: Aesthetic Autonomies and Collectivities
9. 3. Full Content: Shaw’s Paratexts, Social Liberalism, and Harmonization 77
10. 4. Refreshments of Revolutionary Mood 103
11. Part III. Discriminating: Liberal Ethics and Literary Aesthetics
12. 5. Playing at Judgment: Aporias of Liberal Freedom in Kant’s Critique of Judgment 151
13. 6. In Frankenberg’s Cafeteria: The Small Worlds of Highsmith’s The Price of Salt 192
14. Part IV. Recounting: Literary Evidence and Liberal Narration
15. 7. The Proletarian Thirties and Canadian Literary History 215
16. 8. The Corporate Reconstruction of American Literary History 238
17. Part V. Culturing: Economics, Institutions, and the Imagination
18. 9. The Empire Digs Back: Kew Gardens, the Assistant for India, and the Problem of Knowledge Production after Empire 261
19. 10. “They Make Their Own Tragedies Too”: Harvey Swados and Postwar Liberalism’s Discourse of Dependency 290
20. Contributors 317
21. Index 321