Reading Knowledge: An Introduction to Foucault, Barthes and Althusser / Edition 1

by Michael Payne

Overview

Michael Payne introduces the principal writings of Roland Barthes, Michael Foucault and Louis Althusser by means of a detailed focus on their common interest in the forms and conditions of knowledge.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631195672
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	05/28/1997
Pages:	136
Product dimensions:	6.13(w) x 8.87(h) x 0.32(d)

About the Author

Michael Payne is John P. Corzer Professor of English at Bucknell University. He is editor of Blackwell's Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory (1996) and general editor of the Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory, also published by Blackwell. His Reading French Feminism is forthcoming, as is his Renaissance Literature: An Anthology, in the Blackwell Anthologies series.

Table of Contents

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Abbreviations.

1. Barthes: From Work to Text.

2. Foucault: Nietzsche, Genealogy, History.

3. Althusser: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses.

4. Foucault: The Order of Things.

5. Barthes: S/Z. .

6. Althusser: Reading Capital.

7. Signs, Images, and the Real: Barthes, Althusser, and Foucault on Photography and Painting.

8. Deleuze: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Capitalism.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

The attention given to what I think is essential in myresearch-the semiotic and symbolic, rejection, negativity,practice, in particular their close connection with Husserl, Hagel,and Freud- is unique among works which have previously dealt withmy books.” Julia Kristeva

“For this reader’s money. Payne’s discussionis the best non-polemical introduction to Lacan he has comeacross.” Jesse W. Nash, History of European Ideas

“I have never read a more lucid explanation ofDerrida’s ideas.” James R. Bennett, Style

“Reading Theory is an enormously study and, given itscomplexity, remarkably accessible.” John Schad, Review ofEnglish Studies

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