The task of cultural critique

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface: The Critique of Interpretive Reason -- PART 1: ANATOMY OF CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL CRITIQUE -- 1. The Spectral Concrete -- 2. The Abstract of Transformative Critique -- 3. Desiring Surfaces -- PART 2: THE WORK OF CRITIQUE -- 4. Affective Pedagogy and Feminist Critique -- 5. Chick Lit: "Not Your Mother's Romance Novels -- 6. Red Love -- 7. Globalization, the "Multitude," and Cynical Critique -- 8. Reading Ideology: Marx, de Man, and Critique -- Coda: Reclaiming Totality -- Bibliography -- Index.