Future of Theory

Jean-Michel Rabaté is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published books on Beckett, Bernhard, Pound, Joyce, Lacan, psychoanalysis, and literary theory. His recent books include The Ghosts of Modernity (1996), Joyce and the Politics of Egoism (2001), and Jacques Lacan and Literature (2001). He has also edited several collections of essays, including Writing the Image after Roland Barthes (1997), Jacques Lacan in America (2000), and The Cambridge Companion to Jacques Lacan (2002).

"As with other books in this publisher's series, the intent is to engage the general educated public in a discussion of meaningful concepts, and Rabate succeeds excellently. For all public and academic collections." Library Journal "This clearly written, well-documented study will serve graduate students, faculty and researchers." Choice

• Introduction 11. Geneaology 1: Hegel's Plague 212. Genealogy 2: The Avant-Garde at Theory's High Tide 473. Theory, Science, Technology 934. Theory not of Literature but as Literature 117Conclusion 141Notes 151Index 164