Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction: Criticism as Politics 1
6. Part One
7. 1. Paul de Man, Language, and the Politics of Meaning 25
8. 2. Reference and the Social Basis of Language 47
9. 3. The Limits of Althusser's Poststructuralist Marxism 73
10. 4. Jameson's Marxist Hermeneutics and the Need for an Adequate Epistemology 93
11. Part Two
12. 5. Political Criticism and the Challenge of Otherness 116
13. 6. On Situating Objective Knowledge 149
14. 7. Identity, Multiculturalism, Justice 198
15. Index 255