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Deconstruction and Critical Theory
This book surveys the main schools and theorists of deconstruction, establishing their philosophical roots and tracing their intellectual development. It analyses their contribution to the understanding of literature and ideology, comparing their critical value and exploring the critical reaction to deconstruction and its limitations. The text is designed for students who wish to understand how and why deconstruction has become the dominant tool of the humanities. Deconstruction and Critical Theory marks a new stage in the reception history of Derrida's work and in the wider philosophical debate around deconstruction. Zima's study makes a strikingly original contribution to our better unders...
What is Theory?
An interrogation of the term 'theory' from the perspective of linguistic discourse Zima offers a new definition of theory from a cultural and sociological perspective, with a view to encountering heterogenerous points of view in critical dialogue.
Subjectivity and Identity
Subjectivity and Identity is a philosophical and interdisciplinary study that critically evaluates critically the most important philosophical, sociological, psychological and literary debates on subjectivity and the subject. Starting from a history of the concept of the subject from modernity to postmodernity - from Descartes and Kant to Adorno and Lyotard - Peter V. Zima distinguishes between individual, collective, mythical and other subjects. Most texts on subjectivity and the subject present the topic from the point of view of a single discipline: philosophy, sociology, psychology or theory of literature. In Subjectivity and Identity Zima links philosophical approaches to those of sociology, psychology and literary criticism. The link between philosophy and sociology is social philosophy (e.g. Althusser, Marcuse, Habermas), the link between philosophy and literary criticism is aesthetics (e.g. Adorno, Lyotard, Vattimo). Philosophy and psychology can be related thanks to the psychological implications of several philosophical concepts of subjectivity (Hobbes, Stirner, Sartre).
Modern/Postmodern
Modern/Postmodern: Society, Philosophy, Literature offers new definitions of modernism and postmodernism by presenting an original theoretical system of thought that explains the differences between these two key movements. Taking a contrastive approach, Peter V. Zima identifies three key concepts in the relationship between modernism and postmodernism - ambiguity, ambivalence and indifference. Zima defines modernism and postmodernism as problematics, as opposed to aesthetics, stylistics or ideologies. Unlike modernism, which is grounded in an increasing ambivalence towards social norms and values, postmodernity is presented as an era of indifference, i.e. of interchangeable norms, values and perspectives. Taking an historical, interdisciplinary and intercultural approach that engages with Anglo-American and European debates, the book describes the transition from late modernist ambivalence to postmodern indifference in the contexts of philosophy, literature and sociology. This is the ideal guide to the relationship between modernism and postmodernism for students and scholars throughout the humanities.
The Philosophy of Modern Literary Theory
A remarkable, systematic reconstruction of the philosophical and aesthetic foundations of the major literary theories, from Anglo-American New Criticism to Deconstruction and Postmodernism. The book ranges across not just the philosophical underpinnings of English Literature but also the critical literatures of Eastern Europe, France, Germany, Italy and North America. For the first time, the major schools of literary theory are set within their philosophical context. The book is likely to become the standard introduction to the study of literary theory.
Discourse and Power
Discourse and Power: An Introduction to Critical Narratology: Who Narrates Whom? is both an introduction to discourse research and an application of the concept of discourse to the problem of power. Divided into two sections, Part One is a presentation of the most important theories of discourse in which the link between discourse and power or language and power is central. It provides a critical overview of the most important discourse theories: Foucault, Bourdieu, Fairclough and Greimas’s structural semiotics. In Part Two, the section on practice, the insights gained in the first part of the book are applied to analyses of particular discourses and their involvement in power relations. R...
Das Subjekt in Literatur und Kunst
Im vorliegenden Band, der aus einem internationalen Klagenfurter Symposion hervorging, werden die Stellung des Subjekts und die Entwicklung der Subjektivität vom Spätmittelalter(Dante) bis zur Postmoderne auf komparatistischer und interdisziplinärer Ebene untersucht. Während der erste Teil des Bandes hauptsächlich die frühe Moderne und die Romantik zum Gegenstand hat, beziehen sich Teil II und III auf die Spätmoderne (den Modernismus),die Avantgarden und die Neoavantgarden. Im vierten und letzten Teil wird Subjektivität in Musik, Malerei, Film und Design analysiert .In den meisten Beiträgen wird deutlich, dass der Spielraum, der dem Einzelsubjekt zur Verfügung steht, seit der Spätmoderne immer kleiner wird und dass die Emanzipationsversprechender Renaissance (etwa Montaignes oder Cervantes) nicht eingelöst wurden.
Deconstruction as Analytic Philosophy
These twelve essays treat the thought of "deconstructive" philosophers from the perspective of analytic philosophy and relate the works of such thinkers as Davidson, Quine, and Wittgenstein to the writings of Derrida and de Man.
What is Theory ?
The term theory is nowadays most commonly defined in relation to the concept of scientific knowledge. Yet the etymological background of the term reminds us that theory is in fact a way of viewing objects and of relating them to one another within a particular kind of discourse. The word discourse implies that we are dealing with linguistic structures and that, in the realm of cultural and social sciences, theory can therefore only be understood as a linguistic construct. In what is theory?, Peter V.Zima argues that this concept of theory has never been adequately analysed. He asserts that social scientists have been dealing with concepts such as culture ideology language and discourse witho...
Deconstructive Subjectivities
Explores the meanings of subjectivity in continental philosophy in the wake of post-structuralism and critical theory.
