Surface Critique

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ID4440335
AuthorsEleanor Kaufman (corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume119
Issue4
Pages747-759
Publication date2020-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSouth Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00382876-8663651
OpenAlexW3092212769
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited25

Against the idea that thinkers such as Althusser practice a form of ideology critique that is equivalent to a style of "deep reading," at issue is a model of critical analysis that attends to what is readily perceptible on the surface but not conceptualized as such. In the mid-1960s, Althusser and Foucault, not unlike Lacan, propose similar models of reading that focus on what is visible yet invisible insofar as not fully recognized. However, Ricardo serves as a nodal point dividing Althusser's and Foucault's otherwise strikingly parallel modes of adjacent reading, or surface critique: for Althusser, Ricardo's difference from Marx represents the break between ideology and science; for Foucault, Ricardo and Marx are entirely of the same moment

Art · Classical mechanics · Epistemology · Focus (optics) · Ideology · Linguistics · Literature · Michel foucault · Moment (physics) · Physics · Political science · Politics · Reading (process) · Sociology · Style (visual arts) · Critical Theory and Political Philosophy · Law · Marxism and Critical Theory · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism

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