Los Angeles Review of Books - Digital Editions: For Critical Times

About this book

"For Critical Times" draws out nine gems from our Critical Theory and Philosophy section, which has produced some of the most popular pieces LARB has published to date. Is it because these writers tease out and diagnose what ails society today? Or is it that keen minds love a good controversy, and our critical theorists aren't afraid to stir one up? We publish, you decide.Featured De "Introduction"Bruce "Europe on the Habermas and the Currency Crisis"Olivia "Judith Butler and the Cause of the Other"Maggie "Finishing Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick's The Weather in Proust"Adam "How to Read Žižek"Brian "For Future Friends of Walter Benjamin"Dora "The Sideways Roland Barthes's Travels in China"Rebecca Ariel "The Zany, the Cute, and the Sianne Ngai's Our Aesthetic Categories"Peggy Life in "Of Capitalism and A&E's Storage Wars"