Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 02:03:06 -0800
From: dmurch-AT-violet.berkeley.edu (Donna Murch)
Subject: reference questions


This is a general call to the line.  i am working on a paper, and i have a
number of research strands i would like to pursue.  if anyone has
suggestions on the following subjects all references are welcome:

1. Theory of contradiction -  i am looking for a goody pithy discussion of
the principle of contradiction within dialectical logic. 
appearance/essence problematic, hermeneutic suspicion, veil of appearance
which requires a deeper more integrated analysis to explain apparent
contradiction etc.  suggestions?
2. A critique of analogy - this may be one for ralph, up kenneth burke's
way.  i am looking for a critique of the use of one historical phenomenon
to represent or stand in for another.  relations of the family for slavery
in paternalist accounts, for example. one might also think of this as a
problem of transmission as in the eighteenth brumaire - an impoverishment
of politics in which material relations are obscured by atemporal phantoms,
spectacle in place of the real.
3.Against the Man:Freud and Hegel - suggestions for work which considers
these two thinkers together.  am interested in considering
similarity/difference of hermeneutic suspicion in both, deceptive nature of
appearence, and paternalist model of power.  master/slave, father/child. 
critique welcome.
4.Against the New Critic: Materialist critiques of the New Criticism and
New Historicism, which attempts to read history through a series of frozen,
static, and often anecdotal moments rather than through more rigourous
forms analysis which broach causation, an empircal base of information, and
a trajectory of events.
5. Against Psychonalysis: Good Marxist critiques of forms of
psychoanlalytic criticism which erase social relations through positing the
individual as focus of analysis.  Oedipus Complex as tool to undermine
material causes of social rebellion, for example... 

thanks,


donna



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