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Tables of Contents for Just Being Difficult?
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction: Dressing Up, Dressing Down
1
15
Jonathan Culler
Kevin Lamb
Part I. In Search of a Common Language; or, Language Debates and the History of Philosophy
Difficult Style and ``Illustrious'' Vernaculars: A Historical Perspective
15
14
Margaret Ferguson
Hume's Learned and Conversable Worlds
29
14
Robin Valenza
John Bender
Bad Writing and Good Philosophy
43
15
Jonathan Culler
The Metaphysics of Clarity and the Freedom of Meaning
58
17
John Mccumber
Part 2. Institutions, Publics, Intellectual Labor
Feminism's Broken English
75
20
Robyn Wiegman
The Resistance of Theory; or, The Worth of Agony
95
11
Rey Chow
Styles of Intellectual Publics
106
23
Michael Warner
Part 3. Modernist Poetics and Critical Badness
On Difficulty, the Avant--Garde, and Critical Moribundity
129
10
Peter Brooks
Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics
139
18
Robert Kaufman
Bad Writing
157
14
Barbara Johnson
Part 4. Address to the Other: Ethics and Acknowledgment
The Morality of Form; or, What's ``Bad'' about ``Bad Writing''?
171
10
David Palumbo-Liu
The Politics of the Production of Knowledge: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
181
18
Stuart J. Murray
Values of Difficulty
199
18
Judith Butler
Contributors
217
4
Index
221