Contested Knowledge

How to Use This Book Part I: Introduction to Critical Theory 1. Critical Critical, Metaphysics, Man, Crisis, Critique, Critical Theory, Postmodernism and Critical theory

2. Representations Books and Life, Truth, In between, To be, "Is" and "Ing"

3. Theory The Empirical and the Transcendental, What theory is and why it is necessary, Object and Concept, Analogy, Economy, Objects, Summary

Part II: Philosophical Impossibilities 1. The Ancients Philosophy, Deception, Socratic Dialogue, Plato's Theatre, Nous (Mind), Allegory, Contingency, Plato's Cave, Ideal Objects, Technology, The Visible and the Invisible, Analogy, The Divided Line, The Empirical and the Transcendental

2. Greek/Jew: Closure and Opening Greek, Binary Oppositions, Empirical/Transcendental Difference, Jew, The Law, Dogmatism and Criticism, Singularity and Plurality, Opening and Closure

3. Modernity Empiricism, Rationality, Freedom, Progress, Centrism, Ethnocentrism, Androcentrism, Phonocentrism, Logocentrism, Descartes' Judgement, Otherness, infinity and difference, How to not define the other Summary Cogito Ergo Sum, Frontiers, The Subject in Crisis, Authority and Enlightenment, Architectural Metaphors, Responsibility

Part III: The Political 1. Being Rhetoric, The Being of Things, Being and Beings

2. The Political 3. False Consciousness False Consciousness, Figurative Language, Graven Images, Fetish, Logocentrism, Nomos, Access to the Transcendental

Part IV: Structuralism 1. Saussure What is Structuralism? Where does structuralism come from? The Course in General Linguistics, Why "general", The Sign Signifier/Signified System and Utterance Difference' "To a Certain Extent", System and Difference, Developments in Structuralism, How Structuralism Works, An Exercise in Structuralism, Synchrony/Diachrony, System/Process, Paradigm/Syntagm

2. Levi-Strauss Structural Linguistics and Anthropology, Necessary Laws, Kinship Relations, Second Order First, The Elementary Unit of Kinship, Uncles with Attitude, The Incest Taboo-woman as symbol of exchange, The Structural Analysis of Myth, The Algorithm of Myth

3. Jakobson Two Types of Aphasia, The Similarity Disorder, The Contiguity Disorder, Metaphor and Metonymy, The Map on the Wall

Part V: Derrida and Deconstruction 1. The Text "Text", Derrida's work, Presence and Absence, The Way We Think, Structure, Play, The way of the text, Bricoleur and Engineer, Supplementarity, Radical Empiricism, "Something Missing"

2. Difference The Same, Differance, Difference a priori, A commentary on "Differance", What to Look for

3. Exemplification Deconstruction, Repetition and Writing, Superfluity and Writing, Alterity and Transcendence, Writing and Interpretation, Transcendental Contraband, Exemplification

Part VI: Psychoanalysis 1. Freud and The Dreamwork Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory, The Unconscious since Freud, Dreams, Interpretation, The Dream Work, Condensation, Displacement, Overdetermination, Considerations of Representability, Kettle Logic

2. Lacan, Freud and Sexuality Lacan and Language, The Unconscious is the Discourse of the Other, The Unconscious is structured like a Language, Metaphor and Metonymy, Sexuality and Sexual Difference, Deferred Action, Sexuality, Oedipus, Sexual Difference, Cinema: Pleasure and Drive, The Ring

3. The Return to Melanie Klein Acquiring Knowledge, The Ruined World, Kleinian Scientificity, Armageddon, Soldier, Problems, The Knowledge

Concluding Remarks