Radical Parody: American Culture and Critical Agency After Foucault
Radical Parody: American Culture and Critical Agency After Foucault
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激进的戏仿：福柯之后的美国文化和批评机构
DOI：
10.2307/2928127
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发表时间：
1993
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
Daniel T. O’Hara
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作者：
Daniel T. O’Hara
对一般理论，特别是福柯的一个持续的批评是，理论的实践不会产生积极的社会或伦理后果。来自政治光谱各个方面的批评家似乎都同意这一点。丹尼尔·奥哈拉在这里通过分析福柯后期的作品以及与福柯作品有关的批评家的职业生涯，包括德里达、克里斯蒂瓦、赛义德、罗蒂、哈罗德·布鲁姆等，论证了阐释的社会用途。奥哈拉的立场是，“做理论”，特别是在福柯之后，确实有社会和伦理后果，“激进的戏仿”证明了为什么会这样。它还将克里斯蒂娃后来关于身份认同和身份形成的工作纳入了这一社会背景。奥哈拉指出，“文化是一个关于自我的规范和非规范实践的集体档案，是一个面具或人格的宝库”。对奥哈拉来说，激进的戏仿因此“定义了后现代经验的崇高发挥的话语形成的关键身份”。在整个过程中，奥哈拉感兴趣的是什么意思是一个“对立的知识分子”，并在什么解释是和可以在一个文化主导的“广泛商品化的知识生活”。这本书的结论与弗兰克Lentricchia，批评家的职业生涯作为一个对立的美国知识分子奥哈拉发现典范的批评概况。
A persistent criticism of theory in general and of Foucault in particular is that no positive social or ethical consequences result from the practice of theory. Critics from all points on the political spectrum seem to agree on this point. Daniel O'Hara here demonstrates the social uses of interpretation by analyzing the later writings of Foucault and the careers of critics in relation to Foucault's work, including Derrida, Kristeva, Said, Rorty, Harold Bloom, and others. O'Hara's position is that "doing theory", specifically after Foucault, does have social and ethical consequences, and "radical parody" demonstrates why this is so. It also incorporates into this social context the later work of Kristeva on identification and identity formation. O'Hara shows that "culture is a collective archive of canonical and non-canonical practices of self, a treasure hoard of masks or personnae". For O'Hara, radical parody thus "defines the postmodern experience of the sublime play of discourses in the formation of critical identity". Throughout, O'Hara is interested in what it means to be an "oppositional intellectual", and in what interpretation is and can mean in a culture dominated by a "widespread commodification of intellectual life". The book concludes with a critical profile of Frank Lentricchia, a critic whose career as an oppositional American intellectual O'Hara finds exemplary.