Martin Heidegger, “Letter on Humanism”
James Hankins, “How Not to Defend the Humanities”
Stephen Best and Sharon Marcus, “Surface Reading: An Introduction”
Hans Blumenberg, “An Anthropological Approach to the Contemporary Significance of Rhetoric”
Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature
Frederic Jameson, from The Political Unconscious
Greenblatt, Shakespeare and the Exorcists
Jurgen Habermas, Structural Transformations and “Modernity”
Adorno and Horkheimer, from The Dialectic of Enlightenment
Peter Sloterdijk, from Critique of Cynical Reason
Frantz Fanon, Pitfalls of National Consciousness
Foucault, from The History of Sexuality
Janet Adelman, “Suffocating Mothers in King Lear”
Monique Wittig, “One is not Born a Woman”
Carl Schmitt, from Political Theology
Andreas Höfele, “‘I’ll see their trial first’: Law and Disorder in Lear’s Animal Kingdom”
Ruth Leys, “The Turn to Affect: A Critique”
Amanda Bailey, “Speak What We Feel”
Jane Bennett, from Vibrant Matter
Ethan John Guagliardo 