The Aims of Representation

Then a Focused Research Program in Contemporary Critical Theory, the critical theory group proposed the above topic for a series of lectures and colloquia held over a three-year period. The group’s research resulted in the volume published as The Aims of Representation: Subject/Text/History, which includes most of the following lectures.

Related Lectures:
1984-1985:
Robert Weimann (English and Literary Theory, Zentralinstitut für Literaturgeschichte, Berlin)
“History, Appropriation, and the Uses of Representation in Modern Narrative.”

Dominick LaCapra (European and Intellectual History, Cornell)
“Criticism Today.”

Stephen Greenblatt (English, UC, Berkeley)
“Capitalist Culture and the Circulatory System.”

1983-1984
John Carlos Rowe (English & Comparative Literature, UC Irvine)
“Surplus Economies: Deconstruction, Ideology and the Humanities.”

Mark Poster (History, UC Irvine)
“Foucault, Post-Structuralism, and the Mode of Information.”

Shoshana Felman (French and Comparative Literature, Yale)
“Women and the Dream from which Psychoanalysis Proceeds: ‘The Irma Dream.’”

Anthony Giddens
(Fellow and Director of Studies on Social and Political Science, Cambridge)
“Action, Subjectivity, and the Constitution of Meaning.”

1982-1983:
Jean-François Lyotard (Philosophy, U Paris, Vincennes/Saint-Denis)
“Judiciousness in Dispute, or Kant after Marx.”

David Carroll (French, UC Irvine)
“Narrative, Heterogeneity, and the Question of the Political: Bakhtin and Lyotard.”

Wolfgang Iser (English & Comparative Literature, UC Irvine & Universitât Konstanz)
“Representation: A Performative Act.”