UC Irvine, Critical Theory Archive

This collection is comprised of manuscripts and research materials from philosopher and political theorist Etienne Balibar.

Barbara Cohen was the director of HumaniTech program at the University of California, Irvine's School of the Humanities, and the co-editor of Provocations to Reading: J. Hillis Miller and the Democracy to Come along with Dragan Kujundzic, professor of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Florida, Gainesville. This collection contains copyedited proofs of this text, as well as correspondence between the editors, copyeditors, authors, and Fordham University Press regarding the in process manuscript. Contributors to this work include Larisa Tokmkoff Castillo, Thomas Cohen, Jacques Derrida, Alexander Gelley, Peggy Kamuf, Juilet Flower MacCannell, J. Hillis Miller, Glenn Odom, Donald Pease, Marc Redfield, Dan Shen, Henry Sussman, and Jennifer Williams.

This collection contains administrative records and flyers from Critical Theory Emphasis (CTE), an interdisciplinary program for graduate students at the University of California, Irvine's School of Humanities. The majority of the records belonged to former Emphasis director Alexander Gelley and focus on general administration of the Emphasis from 1995-1998. Flyers in this collection include announcements for events sponsored by the CTE.

This collection documents events, people, projects, and administration of the UC Irvine Critical Theory Institute (CTI). It comprises audio and video recordings of selected events including the Irvine Lectures in Critical Theory and the Wellek Library Lectures, as well as other lectures, conferences, and discussion sessions organized by CTI. The collection also contains several lectures given off campus by UCI faculty associated with CTI. An unprocessed addition to this collection contains mostly paper files documenting the lectures, events, scholars, and administration of the CTI, including information on budget matters, review and planning, the Wellek Lecture Series, workshops, and more.

This collection contains published offprints that were received by Special Collections and Archives as part of the personal papers of several prominent critical theorists. The offprints were separated because they were not of enduring value in documenting the scholarly work of the theorists with whose personal papers they were received. These include: Paul de Man Papers (MS-C04), Ihab Hassan Papers (MS-C05), and Murray Krieger Papers (MS-C02). Researchers interested in offprints of works by these theorists or offprints of works central to their scholarship should consult their personal papers in the UC Irvine Libraries Critical Theory Archive. Topical coverage of the offprints in this collection includes the academic disciplines of comparative literature, literary theory, and critical theory.

This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Paul de Man documenting his career as a scholar and literary theorist in the field of comparative literature, and as an academic in the United States. Files primarily contain his manuscripts and typescripts related to literary criticism, rhetoric, and critical theory, and reflect his general interests in Romanticism. In particular, materials document his approach to literary texts that became known as deconstruction. His works focus on writers and philosophers such as Hegel, Hölderlin, Mallarmé, Nietzsche, Rousseau, Wordsworth, and Yeats. The collection also contains published and unpublished writings, student papers, notes, teaching notebooks, and related materials.

This collection consists of printed email correspondence from the "Derrida and Deconstruction," or DERRIDA, listserv between 1991 and 1994. The online scholarly discussion group addressed the philosophical, political, and literary work of Jacques Derrida and the theory of deconstruction.

This collection is comprised of manuscripts, typescripts, recordings, photographs, and an extensive clippings file documenting the professional career of Jacques Derrida and providing comprehensive documentation of his activities as a student, teacher, scholar, and public figure. In addition, Derrida's files on the 1988 controversy regarding Paul de Man's World War II-era writings are also included. Best known for the development of "deconstruction," Derrida was trained as a philosopher, but his work engages and transverses numerous other discourses such as literature, politics, law, religion, psychoanalysis, and ethnography. Ranging from his early work as a student to his recent seminars, the material in the archive spans from circa 1946 to 2000. The collection contains numerous pages of notes and written reports that reflect Derrida's academic training under the tutelage of figures such as Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault. His commitment to teaching is documented by a full collection of teaching notes for the multitude of seminars that he has taught over the course of his career. The more public side of Derrida is also well represented by notes, working drafts, final drafts, and other materials related to his vast published output. With the exception of the photographs, the collection contains no material that might be described as "personal," such as private correspondence. The vast majority of the materials are in French.

This collection contains publications, manuscripts, notes, annotated sources, subject files, and curriculum vitae of former University of California, Irvine French and Comparative Literature professor, Eugenio Donato.

This collection comprises video recordings made by Safaa Fathy to document selected public lectures and other activities of the French philosopher and critical theorist Jacques Derrida between 2000 and 2004. Events include public lectures, panel discussions, conferences, and ceremonies. Some events contain recordings of additional participants, including theorists such as Jürgen Habermas, Hélène Cixous, and Axel Honneth.