Table of Contents

Introduction.

Part I: Paradigms of Interpretation:.

1. On Interpretation: Literature as a Socially Symbolic Act (1981).

2. Towards Dialectical Criticism (1971).

3. T.W. Adorno (1971).

4. Roland Barthes and Structuralism (1972).

5. Imaginary and Symbolic in Lacan (1977).

Part II: Marxism and Culture: .

6. On Jargon (1977).

7. Base and Superstructure (1990).

8. Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture (1979).

9. Marxism and the Historicity of Theory: An Interview by Xudong Zhang (1998).

10. Five Theses on Actually Existing Marxism.

Part III: Postmodernism:.

11. Beyond the Cave: Demystifying the Ideology of Modernism (1975).

12. Postmodernism, or The Cultural Login of Late Capitalism (1984).

13. The Antinomies of Postmodernity (1994).

14. Culture and Finance Capital (1997).

Part IV: Exercises in Cognitive Mapping: .

15. Cognitive Mapping (1998).

16. Class and Allegory in Contemporary Mass Culture: Dog Day Afternoon as a Political Film (1977).

17. National Allegory in Wyndham Lewis (1979).

18. Third World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism (1986).

19. Totality as Conspiracy (1992).

Part V: Utopia: .

20. Introduction/Prospectus: To Reconsider the Relationship of Marxism to Utopian Thought (1976).

21. World-Reduction in Le Guin: The Emergence of Utopian Narrative (1975).

22. Utopian and Anti-Utopianism (1994).

Bibliography.

Index.

About the Author

Michael Hardt teaches in the Literature Program at Duke University. His previous books include Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy (1993), Empire (forthcoming) and with Antonion Negri he is co-author of Labor of Dionysus: A Critique of the State-form (1994).

Kathi Weeks teaches in the Politics department at Fairfield University. She is the author of Constituting Feminist Subjects (1998).