The history of theory


Autoria(s): Hunter, Ian
Contribuinte(s)

W. Mitchell

Data(s)

01/01/2006

Resumo

Do you see now why it feels so good to be a critical mind? Why critique, this most ambiguous pharmakon, has become such a potent euphoric drug? You are always right! When naïve believers are clinging forcefully to their objects ... you can turn all of those attachments into so many fetishes and humiliate all the believers by showing that it is nothing but their own projection, that you, yes you alone, can see. But as soon as naïve believers are thus inflated by some belief in their own importance, in their own projective capacity, you strike them by a second uppercut and humiliate them again, this time by showing that, whatever they think, their behavior is entirely determined by the action of powerful causalities coming from objective reality they don't see, but that you, yes you, the never sleeping critic, alone can see. Isn't this fabulous? Isn't it really worth going to graduate school to study critique?

Identificador

http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:82663/UQ82663_OA.pdf

http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:82663

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

Univerity of Chicago Press

Palavras-Chave #Humanities #Philosophy #Multidisciplinary #Theory #History #Fredric Jameson #Jacques Derrida #Edmund Husserl #Terry Eagleton #Noam Chomsky #440105 History of Philosophy and History of Ideas #780199 Other
Tipo

Journal Article