Critical Inquiry

Our Current Issue

Our Autumn 2013 issue features Haun Saussy, Hannah Arendt, Leo Bersani, and more…
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Talal Asad on Humanitarianism

available free online and forthcoming in print. Also see Charles W. Collier on gun control, Anya Bernstein on Pussy Riot, Giorgio Agamben on Aristotle, and more…
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In the Moment: The CI Blog

In the Moment: The CI Blog features theoretically sophisticated interventions in current politics, art, and scholarship by CI’s board members and contributors
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Philip Roth remembers Richard Stern

Web Exclusive: Philip Roth remembers his colleague Richard Stern, who passed away in January, 2013.
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Heaney in Chicago

Web Exclusive: Three essays by Seamus Heaney from our archive, with a new introduction by James Chandler.
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Taussig in Palestine

Michael Taussig sends us a report from his recent trip to Palestine.
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Now available: Signature Derrida

Edited by Jay Williams with an Introduction by Françoise Meltzer, a wide-ranging anthology of Derrida's writings in CI
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Critical Inquiry Books

Books from Critical Inquiry range from perennial favorites like On Metaphor, On Narrative, and “Race,” Writing, and Difference to Saints (2011) and the forthcoming Signature Derrida
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