Some theoretical and historical complications in Hegel's aesthetics of comedy / Stanley Corngold -- The double detour : Satre, Heidegger, and the genealogy of deconstruction / Tilottama Rajan -- The premodern condition : neo-primitivism in Baudrillard and Lyotard / Victor Li -- The sublime between history and theory : Hegel, de Man, and beyond / Ian Balfour
Summary
Tackles the issue of providing an intellectual history of theory, given the considerable continuity between theory and the history of ideas. The editors address this challenge with thirteen essays on a variety of theorists from Derrida to Zizek