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| Critical Inquiry (journal) | |
|---|---|
| Title | Critical Inquiry |
| Discipline | Critical theory, literary criticism, cultural studies |
| Editor | W. J. T. Mitchell |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
| Country | United States |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| History | 1974–present |
| Issn | 0093-1896 |
Critical Inquiry (journal) is a quarterly academic periodical published by the University of Chicago Press that focuses on critical theory, literary criticism, and interdisciplinary humanities scholarship. Founded in 1974 during debates surrounding the New Criticism, Structuralism, and Post-structuralism, the journal has engaged figures associated with The New York Review of Books, Partisan Review, and the MLA.
The journal was established in 1974 amid intellectual currents linked to Herbert Marcuse, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, and debates traceable to the legacy of T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Early issues featured exchanges involving scholars associated with Yale University, University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University, Columbia University, and the University of Chicago. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s the journal intersected with discussions tied to the Paris Peace Accords era intellectual climate and interlocutors such as Edward Said, Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Edward W. Said, and Fredric Jameson. In the 1990s and 2000s it hosted debates engaging proponents of Feminist theory like Judith Butler, critics linked to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and theorists associated with Postcolonialism and Cultural Studies at institutions including University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and Princeton University. Editorial changes over decades reflect dialogues involving editors and contributors from New Left Review, The Nation, and the Times Literary Supplement.
The journal's remit articulates commitment to work resonant with traditions traced to Georg Lukács, Antonio Gramsci, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and Max Horkheimer. It publishes essays addressing literature and art that converse with scholarship produced at King's College London, University of California, Los Angeles, Brown University, and research networks connected to Social Text, Diacritics, and Representations. Aims emphasize theoretical rigor in dialogues with practices associated with Modernism, Romanticism, Renaissance, and debates concerning figures like William Shakespeare, John Milton, Homer, Dante Alighieri, and Miguel de Cervantes. The journal promotes interdisciplinary work linking scholars from History of Ideas circles at Columbia University and Yale University Press to practitioners from Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, and Getty Research Institute.
Published quarterly by the University of Chicago Press, each issue typically contains a combination of long-form essays, review essays, responses, and special dossier sections on topics associated with conferences at American Comparative Literature Association, Modern Language Association, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, and symposia involving Johns Hopkins University and University of Michigan. The format has hosted translations of texts by Paul de Man, Jacques Lacan, Maurice Blanchot, and archival documents related to figures such as Bertolt Brecht, Hannah Arendt, and Frantz Fanon. Special thematic issues have centered on movements like Surrealism, Dada, Symbolism, and events such as the 1968 protests.
Landmark essays include interventions by scholars in dialogue with Jacques Derrida and Roland Barthes as well as polemics referencing Saussure-linked linguistics debates; contributions have sparked exchanges involving Edward Said's interventions on Orientalism and rebuttals tied to critics associated with Cambridge University Press and Princeton University Press. Debates published in the journal have involved responses to work by Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Fredric Jameson, and controversies paralleling those that surfaced in venues like New Left Review, Telos, and Dissent (magazine). The journal has run influential review symposia on books by Harold Bloom, Northrop Frye, Mikhail Bakhtin, Suzanne Langer, and texts tied to Postmodernism debates involving Jean-François Lyotard.
Editors and board members have included scholars affiliated with University of Chicago, Yale University, Harvard University, Columbia University, and University of California, Berkeley. Regular contributors and essayists have included figures associated with Judith Butler's circle, critics like Frank Kermode, historians linked to Geoffrey Hartman, and theorists such as Seymour Chatman and Elaine Showalter. The journal has published work by international scholars from Université Paris-Sorbonne, Università di Bologna, Humboldt University of Berlin, Australian National University, and networks connected to European Graduate School and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
The journal has been influential across departments at Princeton University, University of California, Berkeley, Yale University, New York University, and University of Michigan, shaping syllabi and debates in graduate programs tied to the MLA, American Philosophical Association, and conferences such as Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. It has been cited in discussions in outlets like New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, and has figured in historiographies relating to Critical Theory and institutional formations such as European Graduate School and the consolidation of Cultural Studies in North American academia. Reception ranges from praise in venues like American Historical Review to critique in forums such as Telos and Dissent (magazine).
The journal is indexed and abstracted in major services associated with JSTOR, Project MUSE, Scopus, Web of Science, and databases maintained by EBSCO, ProQuest, and university library consortia connected to OCLC and HathiTrust.
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