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theory’s empire “Breakfast Theory:A Morning Methodology,”by JeffReid.Originally appeared in In These Times,29March 1989. theory’s empire An Anthology of Dissent edited by daphne patai will h. corral and columbia university press new york Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York Chichester,West Sussex Copyright © 2005Columbia University Press All rights reserved The coeditors ofthis volume are deeply grateful for the financial assistance they received in the preparation ofthis book from Lee R.Edwards,dean ofthe Faculty ofHumanities and Fine Arts at the University ofMassachusetts Amherst,and from the Office ofResearch and Sponsored Projects at California State University,Sacramento. Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Theory’s empire :an anthology ofdissent / edited by Daphne Patai and Will Corral. p.cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0–231–13416–9(alk.paper)—ISBN 0–231–13417–7(pbk.:alk.paper)—ISBN 0–231–50869–7(electronic) 1.Criticism.2.Literature—History and criticism—Theory,etc. I.Patai,Daphne,1943– PN 81.T4452004 801′.95—dc22 2004058252 Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper. Printed in the United States ofAmerica Designed by Chang Jae Lee c 10987654321 p 10987654321 contents introduction 1 part i. theory rising 19 introduction 21 1. Theory,What Theory? Valentine Cunningham 24 2. Destroying Literary Studies René Wellek 41 3. Traveling Through American Criticism Tzvetan Todorov 52 4. The Rise and Fall of“Practical”Criticism: From I.A.Richards to Barthes and Derrida Morris Dickstein 60 5. The Power and Limits ofLiterary Theory Richard Freadman and Seumas Miller 78 6. Is Theory to Blame? John M.Ellis 92 7. Theory,Theories,and Principles Denis Donoghue 109 part ii. linguistic turns 121 introduction 123 8. The Linguistic Unconscious: Saussure and the Post-Saussureans Raymond Tallis 125 9. Literary Theory and Its Discontents John R.Searle 147 10. The Quandaries ofthe Referent Vincent Descombes 176 vi contents 11. The Great Dichotomy Wendell V.Harris 190 12. The Deconstructive Angel M. H.Abrams 199 part iii. empire building 213 introduction 215 13. The Grand Academy ofTheory Frederick Crews 218 14. Theorrhea and Kulturkritik J. G.Merquior 234 15. Masters and Demons Brian Vickers 247 16. The Debate Over the Wartime Writings ofPaul de Man: The Language ofSetting the Record Straight Alan B.Spitzer 271 17. Presentism:Postmodernism,Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism Graham Good 287 18. Preface for a Post-Postcolonial Criticism Erin O’Connor 297 part iv. theory as a profession 313 introduction 315 19. Author! Author! Reconstructing Roland Barthes Clara Claiborne Park 318 20. The French Intellectual Habitus and Literary Culture Niilo Kauppi 330 21. Social Constructionism:Philosophy for the Academic Workplace Mark Bauerlein 341 22. Bad Writing D. G.Myers 354 contents vii 23. Everyman an Übermensch:The Culture of Cultural Studies Stephen Adam Schwartz 360 24. The End ofTheory,the Rise ofthe Profession: A Rant in Search ofResponses Geoffrey Galt Harpham 381 part v. identities 395 introduction 397 25. The Cant ofIdentity Todd Gitlin 400 26. The Gender Fallacy William C.Dowling 411 27. Feminism’s Perverse Effects Elaine Marks 419 28. Queer Theory,Literature,and the Sexualization of Everything:The Gay Science Lee Siegel 424 29. Battle ofthe Bien-Pensant Kwame Anthony Appiah 441 part vi. theory as surrogate politics 449 introduction 451 30. Oppositional Opposition Harold Fromm 454 31. Silence Is Consent,or Curse Ye Meroz! Richard Levin 458 32. Criticism as Displacement Jeffrey Wallen 476 33. Thick Aestheticism and Thin Nativism Russell Jacoby 490 34. Casualties ofthe Culture Wars Eugene Goodheart 508 viii contents part vii. restoring reason 523 introduction 525 35. Rationality/Science Noam Chomsky 528 36. The Furor Over Impostures Intellectuelles:What Is All the Fuss About? Jean Bricmont and Alan Sokal 537 37. The Sleep ofReason Thomas Nagel 541 38. Staying for an Answer:The Untidy Process ofGroping for Truth Susan Haack 552 39. What Is Social Construction? Paul A.Boghossian 562 40. Postcolonial Science Studies:Ending “Epistemic Violence” Meera Nanda 575 part viii. still reading after all these theories . . . 585 introduction 587 41. Literature and Theory:Notes on the Research Programs ofthe 1980s David Bromwich 590 42. Changing Epochs Frank Kermode 605 43. Making Knowledge:Bioepistemology and the Foundations ofLiterary Theory Nancy Easterlin 621 44. Literature and Fiction Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen 636 45. Literary Aesthetics and the Aims ofCriticism Paisley Livingston 651 46. Crisis in the Humanities? Reconfiguring Literary Study for the Twenty-first Century Marjorie Perloff 668 contents ix coda 685 introduction 687 47. A Hippocratic Oath for the Pluralist Wayne C.Booth 688 list of contributors 691 index 699
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