Presenting different ways to imagine criticism without critique, this collection provides a survey of both the difficult times facing ideological critique and the ways in which literary criticism and aesthetics have been affected by changing attitudes toward critique.

Introduction: The Ruins of Critique; Jeffrey R. Di Leo PART I: CRITICISM, JUDGMENT, AND VALUE 1. Criticism and Critique: A Genealogy; David R. Shumway 2. Doing Literary Criticism, Making Value Judgments: What One Might Call 'Good Writing'; Sue-Im Lee 3. Appreciating Appreciation; Charles Altieri 4. Bumps on the Head, Touchstones of Intimacy, and the Vulnerability of the Critic; Robert Chodat PART II: GLOBALIZATION, HISTORICISM, AND IDEOLOGY 5. Critique and Its Postnational Aftermath: Dialogism and the 'Planetary Condition'; Christian Moraru 6. The Criticism of Postcolonial Critique; Nicole Simek 7. Critiques of Early Modern Criticism: Poetics, Historicism, and the Pitfalls of Periodization; Hassan Melehy 8. 'Ideology is not all': Criticism after Žižek; Zahi Zalloua PART III: AESTHETICS AND ANTI-CRITIQUE 9. Who Killed Critique?; Allen Dunn 10. Living In An Aesthetic Regime: The False Feeling Of Life; Alan Singer 11. Jacques Rancière: The Misadventures of Criticism and the Adventures of Hope; Brian O'Keeffe Afterword; R. M. Berry