Critical Conditions: Regarding the Historical Moment Book

	Foreword
	The Scene and the Unseen of the Critic's Discourse
1	Notes Toward a Politics of "American" Criticism	1
2	Theory, Criticism, Dissent: Toward a Sociology of Literary Knowledge	20
3	Critical Change and the Collective Archive	39
4	Irreconcilable Differences: Kant, Hegel, and the "Idea" of Critical History	56
5	Hamlet, Little Doritt, and the History of Character	82
6	Hobbesian Fear: Richardson, de Man, Rousseau, and Burke	97
7	Us and Them: On the Philosophical Bases of Political Criticism	115
	Contributors	147
	Index	149