Contested knowledge: A guide to critical theory/ John Phillips.

1 Introduction to Critical Theory )
I Critical i
Crisis /g Critique /ii Critical Theor\' /14
Postmodernism and Critical Theory /14
II Representations 16
Books and life /16 Truth /17 In between /n
To be /24 'Is' and 'ing' /t]
III Theoiy 29
The empirical and the transcendental /29
What theory is and why it is necessary /30
Object and concept 734 Analogy 735
Economy 735 Objects 736 Summary 740
2 Philosophical Impossibilities 42
I The Ancients 42
Philosophy 742 Deception 744 Socratic dialogue 744
Plato's theatre 745 .Nous (mind) 747 Plato's cave 751
Ideal objects 753 The visible and the invisible 757
The empirical and the transcendental 76i
II Greek7Jew; Closure and Opening 62
Greek 762 Jew 766 Singularity and plurality 769
Opening and closure 770
III Modernity
Empiricism 771 Rationality 772 Freedom 773
Man 774 Progress 775 Centrism 775 Descartes'
judgement 777 Otherness, infinity and difference 778
How to not define the other 782 Co^lo ergo sum 784
The Caclcsian subject is not a subject /86 Authority
and enlightenment /Bg Architectural metaphors /go
Responsibility /g4
3 The Political 95
I Being 95
Rhetoric /g^ The being of things /gB
Being and beings /g?
II The Political 9^
III False Consciousness lOi
Graven images /to2 Ideology /107
4 Structuralism and Semiotics 115
I Saussurc ^'5
What is structuralism? /115 The Course in General
Linguistics / The sign/116 Signilier/signified/117
System and utterance/iiB Dinerence/ng 'To a
certain extent'/121 System and dilTcrcncc /121
Dc\'elopmcnts in structuralism /122 An exercise in
• structuralism /123
II Levi-Strauss
Structural linguistics and anthropolog>' /126
Necessary laws /126 Kinship relations/127 Second
order first /127 The elementary unit of kinship /128
Uncles with attitude /129 The incest taboo: woman
as symbol of exchange /129 Tlic structural analysis
of myth /130 The algorithm of myth /133
III Jakobson
Two types of aphasia /134 The similarity disorder /135
Metalanguage /137 The contiguity disorder /138
Metaphor and metonymy /139 The map on the wall /141
144
5 Derrida and Deconstruction
I The Text
Derrida's work /145 Presence and absence /146 The way
we think/147 Structure/149 Play/149 The way of the
text/150 and engineer/151 Supplementarity/152
Radical empiricism /154 ■Something missing" /155
II Dijfkance 157
The Same /157 Differancc /158 Difference a priori /i5g
A commentaiy on 'DifTerance' /159 What to look for /165
III Exemplification 166
Dcconstruction /166 Alterity and writing /167 Repetition
and writing /169 Superfluity and writing /169 Alterityand
transcendence /170 Writing and interpretation /170
Transcendental contraband /171 Exemplification /173
6 Psychoanalysis 176
I Freud and the Dream-work 176
Psychoanalysis and critical theory /176 The unconscious
since Freud /176 Dreams /180 Interpretation /iBr
The dream-work/181 Kettle logic/iBB
II Lacan, Freud and Sexuality 190
Lacan and language /190 The unconscious is the discourse
of the other /190 The unconscious is structured like a
language/191 Metaphor and metonymy/191 Sexuality
and sexual difference/192 Oedipus/197 Sexual difierence/199
Cinema: pleasure and drive /202 The Ring /205
III The Return to Melanie Klein 206
Acquiring knowledge /206 The ruined world /208
Kicinian scientificity (Klein and Bion) /210 Problems /217
7 The Knowledge 219
Concluding Remarks 219
Bibliographical Map 221