Critical (Dis)pleasure
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15310676 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bruno Penteado (0000-0002-3852-1720), Bruno Elias Penteado (0000-0002-8366-5512, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 65-94 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qui Parle (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1041-8385 • E-ISSN: 1938-8020 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/10418385-8241912 |
| OpenAlex | W3037814885 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
Recent developments in literary studies that can be grouped under the umbrella term postcritique purport to restore, in our disciplinary practices, attention to affect, pleasure, and attachment, which postcritics believe the critical tradition has silenced and neglected. Postcritics depict critique as a violent hermeneutic practice of excavating a text’s hidden truths. This essay claims that postcritique’s understanding of critical theory is misguided and caricatural. By focusing on key thinkers of the critical tradition, particularly French philosophers, it argues that hermeneutic openness and nonmastery is a constant in many critical writings—and so is the question of pleasure. It suggests that many of postcritique’s propositions, which postcritics affirm are innovative and claim critique has disavowed, have always been a recurring topic in the work of critical theorists
Aesthetics · Critical theory · Discipline · Epistemology · Openness to experience · Pleasure · Social science · Sociology · French Literature and Critical Theory · French Literature and Criticism · French Literature and Poetry · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
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The Limits of Critique
The Way We Argue Now
Blindness and Insight
Surface Reading
Against Surface Reading
Live Free or Describe
The Political Unconscious
From Cultural Studies to Cultural Research
Psychoanalysis and the Polis
Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern
| Highly cited | No |
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