Keywords: a Vocabulary of Culture and Society

\"Beyond Feminist Aesthetics\" has a dual focus. First, Rita Felski gives a critical account of current American and European feminist literary theory, and second, she offers an analysis of contemporary fiction by women, drawing in particular on the genres of the autobiographical confession and the novel of self-discovery, in order to show that this literature raises questions for feminism that cannot be answered in terms of a purely gender based analysis.Felski argues that the idea of a feminist aesthetic is a nonissue that feminists have needlessly pursued; she suggests, in contrast, that it is impossible to speak of \"masculine\" and \"feminine,\" \"subversive\" and \"reactionary\" literary forms in isolation from the social conditions of their production and reception. The political value of such works of literature from the standpoint of feminism can be determined only by an investigation of their social functions and effects in relation to the interests of women in a particular historical context. This leads her to argue for an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of literature which can integrate literary and social theory, and to develop such an approach by drawing upon the model of a feminist counter-public sphere.Rita Felski has produced a closely reasoned, stimulating book that creates a new framework for discussing the relationship between literature and feminist politics. It will interest students and teachers of women's studies, comparative literature, cultural studies, and fiction.

Beyond Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist Literature and Social Change

20th anniversary edition of "The End of History and the Last Man", a landmark of political philosophy by Francis Fukuyama, author of "The Origins of Political Order". With the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 the threat of the Cold War which had dominated the second half of the twentieth century vanished. And with it the West looked to the future with optimism but renewed uncertainty. "The End of History and the Last Man" was the first book to offer a picture of what the new century would look like. Boldly outlining the challenges and problems to face modern liberal democracies, Frances Fukuyama examined what had just happened and then speculated what was going to come next. Tackling religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes and war, "The End of History and the Last Man" remains a compelling work to this day, provoking argument and debate among its readers. "Awesome ...a landmark ...profoundly realistic and important ...supremely timely and cogent ...the first book to fully fathom the depth and range of the changes now sweeping through the world." (George Gilder, "The Washington"). Post Francis Fukuyama was born in Chicago in 1952. His work includes "America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy" and "After the Neo Cons: Where the Right went Wrong". He now lives in Washington D.C. with his wife and children, where he also works as a part time photographer.

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The end of history and the last man : kemenangan kapitalisme dn demokrasi liberal / oleh Francis Fukuyama, penerjemah M.H. Amrullah

Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967–1975

Women in German Yearbook I. Feminist Studies and German Culture@@@The New Feminist Criticism. Essays on Women, Literature, and Theory

Introduction - Jane Elliott and Derek Attridge Assessing the Field 1. Philosophy After Theory: Transdisciplinarity and the New - Peter Osborne 2. Theory as a Research Program-the Very Idea - Cary Wolfe 3. Theory after Critical Theory - William Rasch 4. Extinct Theory - Claire Colebrook Between theory and practice: affect, will, judgment 5. Perception Attack: The Force to Own Time - Brian Massumi 6. The Will of the People: Dialectical Voluntarism and the Subject of Politics Peter Hallward 7. The Persistence of Hope: Critical Theory and Enduring in Late Liberalism - Elizabeth Povinelli 8. The Practice of Judgement: Hannah Arendt's 'Copernican Revolution' - Linda Zerilli Rethinking the politics of representation 9. When Reflexivity Becomes Porn: Mutations of a Modernist Theoretical Practice Rey Chow 10. The Canny Subaltern - Eva Cherniavsky 11. 'Theory After Postcolonial Theory: Rethinking the Work of Mimesis'- Simon Gikandi Biopolitics and ethics 12. After Life: Swarms, Demons, and the Antinomies of Immanence - Eugene Thacker 13. Inclining the Subject: Natality, Alterity, Ethics - Adriana Cavarero 14. The Person and Human Life- Roberto Esposito Renewing the aesthetic 15. The Wrong Turn of Aesthetics - Henry Staten 16. Literature after theory, or: the intellective turn Laurent Dubreuil 17. The Liberal Aesthetic - Amanda Anderson Philosophy after theory 18. The Arche-Materiality of Time: Deconstruction, Speculative Materialism, and Radical Atheism - Martin Hagglund 19. Concepts, Objects, Gems - Ray Brassier 20. The Pharmacology of the Spirit - Bernard Stiegler

Theory After 'Theory'

Suffering Agency Imagining Neoliberal Personhood in North America and Britain

DOI 10.1215/01642472-2081103 © 2013 Duke University Press For any adequate social theory, the question is defined by recognition of two facts: first, that there are clear social and historical relations between particular literary forms and the societies and periods in which they were originated or practiced; second, that there are undoubted continuities of literary forms through and beyond the societies and periods to which they have such relations. In genre theory, everything depends on the character and process of such continuities. — Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature

Introduction: Genres of Neoliberalism

in terms that have become very familiar. First, there is the "exhilara tion" that comes from feminist analysis, "the particular type of joy [that arises] when a sufficiently large number of people are galva nized by a social explanation of how their lives have taken shape and are gathered together ... elaborating the insight and repeating the analysis" (64-65). Then there is the seemingly inevitable declension. "[A]round 1980," Gornick reports, "feminist solidarity began to un ravel. As the world had failed to change sufficiently to reflect our efforts, that which had separated all women before began to reassert itself now in us.... Personalities began to jar, conversations to bore, ideas to repeat themselves" (66-67). While Gornick's account may at this point seem routine, her perspective on the routine makes her description remarkable: in contrast to countless other such reports, Gornick places no blame on the internal politics of feminism itself, either in the form of the critique by radical women of color or in the turn to theory. And, in the absence of this blame laying, something else becomes visible: in Gornick's reckoning, the problem was not so much that feminist analysis was challenged and hence destabi lized by internal critique but rather that it remained the same for too long, so that it stopped being exciting and came to feel boring and repetitive instead. In suggesting that repetition in and of itself may be a problem for feminism, Gornick's account gestures toward some of the complex and, I think, usually unexplored relations that feminist theory implies between the new, the politically useful, and the intellectually compelling. These relations seem to be of increasing import in some of the current transformations taking place in some areas of feminist the ory. It is clear from a number of indicators that the foundationalism debates of the early and mid-1990s, immortalized in the collections Feminism/Postmodernism (Nicholson) and Feminist Contentions (Benhabib et al.), have ended, and certainly the perception that theories and methodologies

Jane Elliott

Papers

Theory After 'Theory'

Suffering Agency Imagining Neoliberal Personhood in North America and Britain

Introduction: Genres of Neoliberalism

The Currency of Feminist Theory

Stepford U.S.A: Second-Wave Feminism, Domestic Labor, and the Representation of National Time