Introduction

the place of theory today

Martin Middeke, Christoph Reinfandt

1-14

Comes the revolution

J. Hillis Miller

17-31

Literary theory in Reverse

the literariness of theory

Gerold Sedlmayr

33-47

Misreading Shelley, misreading theory

deconstruction, media, and materiality

Christian Huck

49-63

"I am, yet what I am"

theory, being, and dis-appearance

Julian Wolfreys

65-79

Matter against materialism

Bruno Latour and the turn to objects

Benjamin Noys

81-93

Avoiding poststructuralism at its root

towards a new literary theory

Dino Galetti

95-111

Interlude I

the cultures of reflexivity

Martin Middeke, Christoph Reinfandt

113-116

The university

a matter of theoretical importance

Thomas Docherty

119-134

When theory is not enough

a material turn in gender studies

Ingrid Hotz-Davies

135-150

Luhmann in da contact zone

towards a postcolonial critique of sociological systems theory

Lars Eckstein, Christoph Reinfandt

151-166

Passive voice

democratic indifference and the vibrant matter of literature

Dirk Wiemann

167-180

Managing complexity

the "literary turn" in organization studies

Nicola Glaubitz

181-195

Interlude II

ideologies of habitus

Martin Middeke, Christoph Reinfandt

197-201

Ecological transformations of critical theory

Hubert Zapf

205-218

The literary work as ethical event

Derek Attridge

219-232

Ethics and agency

the limits and necessity of ethical criticism

Sebastian Domsch

233-246

The art of compearance

ethics, (reading) literature, and the coming community

Martin Middeke

247-263

Narrative theory at the limit

Richard Walsh

265-279

Interlude III

on interpretation

Martin Middeke, Christoph Reinfandt

281-284

The fate of texts under changing theory

Herbert Grabes

287-303

Latour and literature

David J. Alworth

305-318

Reading textures

Christoph Reinfandt

319-334

Plato or Aristotle?

form and textuality

Sukanta Chaudhuri

335-347

Coda

Theory matters

Martin Middeke, Christoph Reinfandt

349-350