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Volume I: Foundational Essays General Commentary Acknowledgements Appendix: Chronological Table of Reprinted Material 1. The notion of expenditure Georges Bataille 2. The labyrinth Georges Bataille 3. The absence of the book Maurice Blanchot 4. Rhetoric of the Image Roland Barthes 5. The ecstacy of communication Jean Baudrillard 6. The arts of theory Michel de Certeau 7. The image of thought Gilles Deleuze 8. Introduction: rhizome Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari 9. The simulacrum and ancient philosophy Gilles Deleuze 10. The epistemology of the metaphor Paul de Man 11. The rhetoric of temporality Paul de Man 12. The rhetoric of blindness: Jacques Derrida's reading of Rousseau Paul de Man 13. White mythology: metaphor in the text of philosophy Jacques Derrida 14. Writing before the letter Jacques Derrida 15. Signature event context Jacques Derrida 16. Limited Inc. abc. Jacques Derrida 17. Structure, sign and play in the discourse of the human sciences Jacques Derrida 18. Freud and the scene of writing Jacques Derrida 19. Plato's pharmacy Jacques Derrida 20. Excerpts from Course in General Linguistics Ferdinand De Saussure 21. Two lectures Michel Foucault 22. Excerpts from Revolution and poetic language Julia Kristeva 23. The subversion of the subject and dialectic of desire in the Freudian unconscious Jacques Lacan 24. Answering the question: what is postmodernism? Jean-Francois Lyotard 25. Reflection and Interrogation Maurice Merleau-Ponty Volume II: Critical Texts 26. Theses on the philosophy of history Walter Benjamin 27. Frontiers of criticism: Review of Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism by Paul de Man Jonathan Culler 28. Presupposition and intertextuality Jonathan Culler 29. Social criticism without philosophy: an encounter between feminism and postmodernism Nancy Fraser and Linda Nicholson 30. Deconstruction as criticism Rodolphe Gasche 31. "This strange institution called literature" An interview with Jacques Derrida Derek Attridge 32. The myth of the postmodernist breakthrough Gerald Graff 33. Modernity versus postmodernity Jurgen Habermas 34. The new gnosticism: speculations on an aspect of the postmodern mind Ihab Hassan 35. The recognition scene of criticism Geoffrey Hartman 36. Mapping the postmodern Andreas Huyssen 37. Foreward to Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition Fredric Jameson 38. Habermas and Postmodernism Martin Jay 39. The critic as host J. Hillis Miller 40. Radical democracy: modern or postmodern Chantal Mouffe 41. Postmodernist bourgeois liberalism Richard Rorty 42. Translator's preface to Derrida's Of Grammatology Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Volume III: Disciplinary texts: Humanities and Social Sciences Geography 43. Deconstructing the map J.B. Hartley 44. Reading the texts of theoretical economic geography: The role of physical and biological metaphors Trevor J. Barnes 45. Ideology and bliss: Roland Barthes and the secret histories of landscape James S. Duncan and Nancy G. Duncan History 46. Rhetoric and history Dominick LaCapra 47. The sign of history Jean-Francois Lyotard 48. Introduction: The poetics of history Hayden White 49. Interpretation in History Hayden White Literature 50. Paracriticisms, postmodernism and prophecy Robert Caserio 51. The importance of being ernest: literary critics in America Stanley Fogel 52. Critical Factions/Critical Fictions Josue V. Harari 53. Literary commentary as literature Geoffrey Hartman 54. The critical scene: iss