Critical Inquiry
Summer 2007 Volume 33 Number 4

On the Case
Edited by Lauren Berlant

The Summer issue of Critical Inquiry is here and for a limited time
we're providing non-subscribers with open access to Lauren Berlant's
remarkable introductory article
(http://journalsuchicago.qm4.net/a/1/6515475/318859/default.aspx).
The essay lays the groundwork for the rest of the issue, which is the
first in a special two-issue interdisciplinary investigation into the
concept and history of "The Case."

Together, the Summer issue and the forthcoming Autumn issue (due out in
November) look at what the case is; ask how it works--the case study, the
case history, the exemplar; and examine how cases establish order and
disorder, curiosity and research, discipline or transformative
opportunity.

Making the Case

The Summer issue, titled Making the Case, looks at the way cases work in
law, medicine, psychoanalysis, physics, popular culture, public policy,
literary criticism and theory, history, art history, philosophy, and
cinema studies.

Making the Case

663 Lauren Berlant
On the Case

673 Peter Goodrich
The New Casuistry

710 Diana Taylor
Double-Blind: The Torture Case

734 Nasser Hussain
Beyond Norm and Exception: Guantánamo

754 Lauren Berlant
Slow Death (Sovereignty, Obesity, Lateral Agency)

781 Claire Pentecost
Appetites/Sovereignty

782 John Forrester
On Kuhn's Case: Psychoanalysis and the Paradigm

820 Jessica Dubow
Case Interrupted: Benjamin, Sebald, and the Dialectical Image

837 James Chandler
On the Face of the Case: Conrad, Lord Jim, and the Sentimental Novel

865 Christopher Nealon
The Poetic Case

887 Books of Critical Interest

Forthcoming:
The Autumn issue, titled Missing Persons, will look at the ways kinds of
people are used as examples of things. What if the working class were
exemplified by servants rather than industrial workers? Why do ethical
philosophers assume that literary characters act just like humans act?
Why do we assume the close-up is an intensification of the human rather
than a weird twisting of it?

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