Theory's Empire: An Anthology of Dissent Book

1	Theory, what theory?	24
2	Destroying literary studies	41
3	Traveling through American criticism	52
4	The rise and fall of "practical" criticism : from I. A. Richards to Barthes and Derrida	60
5	The power and limits of literary theory	78
6	Is theory to blame?	92
7	Theory, theories, and principles	109
8	The linguistic unconscious : Saussure and the post-Saussureans	125
9	Literary theory and its discontents	147
10	The quandaries of the referent	176
11	The great dichotomy	190
12	The deconstructive angel	199
13	The grand academy of theory	218
14	Theorrhea and kulturkritik	234
15	Masters and demons	247
16	The debate over the wartime writings of Paul de Man : the language of setting the record straight	271
17	Presentism : postmodernism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism	287
18	Preface for a post-postcolonial criticism	297
19	Author! author! : reconstructing Roland Barthes	318
20	The French intellectual habitus and literary culture	330
21	Social constructionism : philosophy for the academic workplace	341
22	Bad writing	354
23	Everyman an ubermensch : the culture of cultural studies	360
24	The end of theory, the rise of the profession : a rant in search of responses	381
25	The cant of identity	400
26	The gender fallacy	411
27	Feminism's perverse effects	419
28	Queer theory, literature, and the sexualization of everything : the gay science	424
29	Battle of the Bien-Pensant	441
30	Oppositional opposition	454
31	Silence is consent, or curse ye Meroz!	458
32	Criticism as displacement	476
33	Thick aestheticism and thin nativism	490
34	Casualties of the culture wars	508
35	Rationality/science	528
36	The furor over Impostures Intellectuelles : what is all the fuss about?	537
37	The sleep of reason	541
38	Staying for an answer : the untidy process of groping for truth	552
39	What is social construction?	562
40	Postcolonial science studies : ending "epistemic violence"	575
41	Literature and theory : notes on the research programs of the 1980s	590
42	Changing epochs	605
43	Making knowledge : bioepistemology and the foundations of literary theory	621
44	Literature and fiction	636
45	Literary aesthetics and the aims of criticism	651
46	Crisis in the humanities? : reconfiguring literary study for the twenty-first century	668
47	A Hippocratic oath for the pluralist	688