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Index
Cover-Page
Half-Title
Dedication
Title
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface: “Something worth reading”: Theory and/as the Art of the Sentence
Introductory Matters: What Theory Does, Why Theory Lives
I. “Theory is [undead] everywhere”
II. The problem with givens
III. Just being difficult/difficultly being just
Part 1 Antiphysis: Five Lessons in Textual Anthropogenesis
Lesson One: “The world must be made to mean”
I. Work with words
II. Post-oceanic feelings
Lesson Two: “Meaning is the polite word for pleasure”
I. Bungle in the jungle
II. L’être pour la lettre
III. Happier endings
Lesson Three: “Language is by nature fictional”
I. Down to earth
II. Giving (up) the finger
III. Thanks for nothing
Lesson Four: “Desire must be taken literally”
I. “a few words”
II. “on death”
III. “sex”
IV. “and interpretation”
Lesson Five: “You are not yourself”
I. Missing persons, bodies in pieces
II. Ideology is eternal
III. Aesthetics of resistance?
Part 2 Extimacy: Five Lessons in the Utter Alterity of Absolute Proximity
Lesson Six: “This restlessness is us”
I. Thesis
II. Antithesis
III. Ecce Homo
Lesson Seven: “There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism”
I. “not a pretty thing”
II. What’s the matter with formalism?
III. Absolutions of irony
IV. Strategies of estrangement
Lesson Eight: “The unconscious is structured like a language”
I. Without positive terms
II. Adventures in metaphor and metonymy
III. “the phallus”—for lack of a worser word
Lesson Nine: “There is nothing outside the text”
I. Given to excess
II. “What are we calling postmodernity?”
III. “something strange to me, although it is at the very heart of me”
Lesson Ten: “One is not born a woman”
I. My (male feminist) credo
II. “The future is kid stuff”
In the End: Theory is (not—) Forever
Reference Matters
Index
Copyright
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