For this reader's money. Payne's discussion is the best non-polemical introduction to Lacan he has come across. Jesse W. Nash, History of European Ideas
I have never read a more lucid explanation of Derrida's ideas. James R. Bennett, Style
Reading Theory is an enormously study and, given its complexity, remarkably accessible. John Schad, Review of English Studies
Acknowledgements.
Abbreviations.
1. Barthes: From Work to Text.
2. Foucault: Nietzsche, Genealogy, History.
3. Althusser: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses.
4. Foucault: The Order of Things.
5. Barthes: S/Z. .
6. Althusser: Reading Capital.
7. Signs, Images, and the Real: Barthes, Althusser, and Foucault on Photography and Painting.
8. Deleuze: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Capitalism.
Index.