Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Part I. Marxism -- Introduction: Marxism -- 1. Marxism: Philosophy and Social Theory -- 2. Western Marxism -- 3. Post-Marxism -- Part II. Structuralism -- Introduction: Structuralism -- 4. Structuralism and Semiotics -- 5. Genetic Structuralism -- Part III. Poststructuralism -- Introduction: Poststructuralism -- 6. Phenomenology and Poststructuralism -- 7. Deconstruction -- 8. Discourse Theory -- Part IV. Postmodernism -- Introduction: Postmodernism -- 9. Philosophical Postmodernism: From Adorno and Derrida to Foucault -- 10. Postmodern Aesthetics -- Part V. Postcolonialism -- Introduction: Postcolonialism -- 11. Postcolonial Theory and Criticism -- 12. Black Studies -- 13. Critical Race Theory -- Part VI. Gender -- Introduction: Gender -- 14. Queer Theory -- 15. Men, Masculinity and Critical Studies -- Part VII. Feminism -- Introduction: Feminism -- 16. First and Second Wave Feminism -- 17. After de Beauvoir: 'French' Feminism and Sexual Difference -- 18. Postfeminism -- Part VIII. Historicism -- Introduction: Historicism -- 19. Reception and Reader-Response Theory -- 20. New Historicism -- 21. Cultural Materialism -- Part IX. Formalism -- Introduction: Formalism -- 22. Russian Formalism and Narratology -- 23. New Criticism -- Part X. Science and Critical Theory -- Introduction: Science and Critical Theory -- 24. Critical Theory and Paradigm Shift -- 25. Critical Theory and Mathematics and Science -- 26. Cognitive Science and Critical Theory -- XI: Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory Introduction: Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory -- 27. Freudian Psychoanalysis -- 28. Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index