Journal article
The Values of *Critique*
Joe Hughes, Jessica Marian
Australian Literary Studies | Australian Literary Studies | Published : 2023
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Abstract
This essay examines practices of evaluation in the archive of the important journal Critique, founded by Georges Bataille in 1946. The journal was a key forum for the development of postwar philosophy and theory in France, and its archive provides a unique resource for the study of the processes of evaluation and judgement that shaped the field. Considering a variety of archival materials (including advertisements for the journal, issue covers, tables of contents, author piece rate lists, letters and private communications) alongside reviews published in the journal, we examine the institutional processes, editorial practices and thus the more-or-less implied values that organised the journa..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
Research for this essay was supported by the University of Melbourne's Early Career Researcher Grant for the project 'Institutions and Ideas: Critique, Tel Quel and the History of Ideas', and by funding from the Australian Research Council for the project 'Journals in Theory: Practices of Academic Judgement' (grant number DP220103633). Many thanks to IMEC for permission to use material from the Piel/Critique archives. We are especially grateful to Audrey Wasser and the two anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful feedback on this essay.