Published Wellek Library Lectures

Harold Bloom: 1981 Lecturer.

The Breaking of the Vessels. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1982.

Perry Anderson: 1982 Lecturer.

In the Tracks of Historical Materialism. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1984.

Frank Kermode: 1983 Lecturer.

Forms of Attention. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
Issued as a paperback in 1987.

Jacques Derrida: 1984 Lecturer.

Memoires: For Paul de Man. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.
English translation by Eduardo Cadava, Cecile Lindsay and Jonathan Culler.

Mémoires: pour Paul de Man. Paris: Galilée, 1988.

Memoires: For Paul de Man. Revised edition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.

J. Hillis Miller: 1985 Lecturer.

The Ethics of Reading: Kant, de Man, Eliot, Trollope, James, and Benjamin. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.

Jean-François Lyotard: 1986 Lecturer.

Peregrinations: Law, Form, Event. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.
Contents:
Chapter One: Clouds:1-15.
Chapter Two: Touches:16-27.
Chapter Three: Gaps:28-44.
Afterword: A Memorial of Marxism: For Pierre Souyri:45-75
A Checklist of Writings By and About Jean-François Lyotard. By Eddie Yeghiayan:77-112.

Streifzüge: Gesetz, Form, Ereignis. Vienna: Passagen, 1989.
German translation by Walter Schmidt.

Pérégrinations: Loi, forme, événement . Paris: Galilée, 1990.

Forflytninger: lov, form, begivenhet. Oslo, Norway: Spartacus, 1992.
Norwegian translation by Nina Refseth.

Peregrinaciones: ley, forma, acontecimientos. Madrid: Cátedra, 1992.
Spanish translation by María Coy.

Murray Krieger: 1988 Lecturer.

A Reopening of Closure: Organicism Against Itself. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.

Edward W. Said: 1989 Lecturer.

Musical Elaborations. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
Cointents:
One: Performance as an Extreme Occasion:1-34
Two: On the Transgressive Elements in Music:35-72
Three: Melody, Solitude, and Affirmation:73-105

Hélène Cixous: 1990 Lecturer.

Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
Contents:
The School of the Dead:1-53
The School of Dreams:55-108
The School of Roots:111-156

Fredric Jameson: 1991 Lecturer.

The Seeds of Time. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.
Contents:
Part One: The Antinomies of Postmodernity:1-71
Part Two: Utopia, Modernism, and Death:73-128
Part Three: The Constraints of Postmodernism:129-205

Geoffrey Hartman: 1992 Lecturer.

The Fateful Question of Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
Contents:
Chapter One: Introduction:1-20
Chapter Two: Culture and the Abstract Life:21-59
Chapter Three: The Question of Our Speech:61-97
Chapter Four: Language and Culture After the Holocaust:99-139
Chapter Five: The Sympathy Paradox: Poetry, Feeling, and Modern Cultural Morality:141-164
Chapter Six: A Culture of Inclusion:165-203

Evelyn Fox Keller. 1993 Lecturer.

Refiguring Life: Metaphors of Twentieth-Century Biology. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.
Contents:
1. Language and Science: Genetics, Embryology, and the Discourse of Gene Action:1-42
2. Molecules, Messages, and Memory: Life and the Second Law:43-78
3. The Body of a New Machine: Situating the Organism Between Telegraphs and Computers:79-118

Wolfgang Iser. 1994 Lecturer.

The Range of Interpretation. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
Contents:
1.Introduction:1-12
2.The Authority of the Canon:13-40
3.The Hermeneutic Circle:41-81
4.The Recursive Loop:83-112
5.The Traveling Differential: Franz Rosenweig, The Star of Redemption:113-144
6. Configurations of Interpretation: An Epilogue:145-158

Harry D. Harootunian. 1997 Lecturer.

History's Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Question of Everyday Life. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
Contents:
Introduction: The Unavoidable 'Actuality' of Everyday Life:2-23
1. Tracking the Dinosaur: Area Studies in a Time of "Globalism":25-58
2. The "Mystery of the Everyday": Everydayness in History:59-110
3. "Dialectical Optics": History in Everdayness:111-158

Judith Butler. 1998 Lecturer.

Antigone's Claim: Kinship between Life and Death. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
Contents:
1. Antigone's Cliam:1-25
2. Unwritten Laws, Aberrant Transmissions:27-55
3. Promiscuous Obedience:57-82

Jean Baudrillard. 1999 Lecturer.

The Vital Illusion. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
Contents:
1. The Final Solution: Cloning Beyond the Human and the Inhuman:1-30
2. The Millenium, or The Suspense of the Year 2000:31-57
3. The Murder of the Real:59-83