Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents XIII
3. Introduction: The Literary, The Textual, The Social 1
4. 1. Judiciousness in Dispute, or Kant after Marx 23
5. 2. Narrative, Heterogeneity, and the Question of the Political: Bakhtin and Lyotard 69
6. 3. Foucault, Post-Structuralism, and the Mode of Information 107
7. 4. Surplus Economies: Deconstruction, Ideology and the Humanities 131
8. 5. Action, Subjectivity, and the Constitution of Meaning 159
9. 6. History, Appropriation, and the Uses of Representation in Modern Narrative 175
10. 7. Representation: A Performative Act 217
11. Essays after the Essays
12. 8. Criticism Today 235
13. 9. Capitalist Culture and the Circulatory System 257
14. Index 275