附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-249) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. For theory -- 2. European intellectual history and the specter of multiculturalism -- 3. Songs of experience: Reflections on the debate over Alltagsgeschichte -- 4. Experience without a subject: Walter Benjamin and the novel -- 5. The limits of limit-experience: Bataille and Foucault -- 6. No power to the Soviets -- 7. Who's afraid of Christa Wolf? Thoughts on the dynamics of cultural subversion -- 8. Postmodern fascism? Reflections on the return of the repressed -- 9. Educating the educators -- 10. The aesthetic alibi -- 11. Mimesis and mimetology: Adorno and Lacoue-Labarthe -- 12. The academic woman as performance artist -- 13. Abjection overruled -- 14. The uncanny nineties -- 15. Modernism and the specter of psychologism -- 16. Modern and postmodern paganism: Peter Gay and Jean Francois Lyotard -- 17. The manacles of Gavrilo Princip -- Notes -- Index.
摘要:"A selection of Martin Jay's recent writings on contemporary thought and culture, this is a book about ideas that matter - and about why ideas matter. Borrowing from Flaubert's notion of a dictionary of "received ideas" and Raymond Williams's explorations of the "keywords" of the modern age, Jay investigates some of the central concepts by which we currently organize our thoughts and lives. His topics range from "theory" and "experience" to the meaning of "multiculturalism" and the dynamics of cultural "subversion." Among the thinkers he engages are Bataille and Foucault, Adorno and Lacoue-Labarthe, Benjamin, Lyotard, and Christa Wolf." "By looking closely at what "words do and perform," Jay makes us aware of the extent to which the language we use mediates and shapes our experience. By helping to distance us from much that we now take for granted, he makes it difficult for us to remain comfortably certain about what we think we know."--Jacket.
