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Introduces most of the main literary theoretic currents alive up to the time of Watergate and then demolishes them on basis of their covert/incoherent/bad political commitments. Some, like Empson or Bakhtin, are basically spared. Does not really introduce Marxist or feminist literary analysis. All with an eye toward dismantling literature as an academic field in favor of cultural studies/rhetoric/discourse studies.

Loved learning about the Scrutineers. Sometimes he summarizes actual philosophical arguments in a way that is unbearably, distractingly glib. Lands heavy hits on Angloid empiricism but never really defines “rationalism� or “neo-Stalinism� or “authoritarianism� which terms he uses a lot. Also in afterword says that by 1989 all Western Marxists had been calling for the end of the USSR for 70 years. Which was news.