Twentieth Century

This collection includes documents either by or about major twentieth century figures such as Freud, Sartre, Heidegger, Russell, and Derrida. The thematic material that is covered includes psychoanalysis, existentialism, deconstruction, post-structuralism, and postmodernism.

Resources in this category:

Academy for the Study of the Psychoanalytic Arts
http://www.academyanalyticarts.org/

"The Academy's Mission is to advance the study of psychoanalytic epistemology, theory, practice, ethics, and education within a psychological framework consisting of philosophy, the arts, and the anthropic sciences as opposed to biology, medicine, and the natural sciences." Of special note is the Academy Library, which contains such papers as "Foucault, Embodiment, and Gendered Subjectivities," "Hegel, Kojeve, and Lacan - The Metamorphoses of Dialectics," and "Postmodernism, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy."

The Bertrand Russell Gallery
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~bertrand/index.html

This site is rich in information about the personal and political life of Bertrand Russell, but offers little in the way of his writings. It serves as a fine introduction with many interesting photographs and several links to more scholarly sites.

Chomsky.Info: The Official Noam Chomsky Website
http://www.chomsky.info/

The most comprehensive site available on Noam Chomsky, MIT professor and influential political activist. The site contains numerous articles by Chomsky, critical essays on Chomsky's work, interviews, letters, and biographies, as well as many audio and video clips. The site emphasizes Chomsky's political activism rather than his work in linguistics.

Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory, and Postmodern Thought
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/postmodern.html#...

What is Postmodernism? What is Critical Theory? This site provides links to introductory materials that grapple with these questions. It also provides links to profiles and essays about the following central figures in contemporary philosophy and theory: Adorno, Bakhtin, Blanchot, Deleuze, Foucault, Giddens, Habermas, Heller, Jameson, Latour, de Man, Merleau-Ponty, Said, Wittgenstein, Althusser, Baudrillard, Burke, Eagleton, Gramsci, Haraway, Horkheimer, Kristeva, Lyotard, Marcuse, Rorty, Taylor, Barthes, Benjamin, Derrida, Fish, Gadamer, Guattari, Heidegger, Husserl, Lacan, Lukacs, Marx, Sartre, and Virilio.

Ereignis: Martin Heidegger Gateway
http://www.beyng.com/ereignis.html

A gateway to Heidegger sites. Of special note are links to full text versions of "What is Metaphysics?," "Letter on Humanism,"The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking," "On the Essence of Truth," and "Building, Dwelling, Thinking." Links to Heidegger's letters to Hannah Arendt, his poems, and many secondary materials are also available. Note that some documents are in pdf or msword format.

An Excerpt from Derrida's "Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression"
http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/arch.html

A small excerpt from one of Derrida's lesser known publications published 10 years before his death. In a short space, he offers insight into the relationships between Freud's death drive, human memory, the structure of the archive, and modern information technology. More than anything, this excerpt serves as a testament to the elegance and poetic grace of Derrida's writing.

French Feminist Theory
http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/wstudies/frenchfem.html

A site dedicated to Helene Cixous, Luce Irigary, Julia Kristeva, Rosi Braidotti, Simone de Beauvoir, Monique Wittig, and Catherine Clement. Contains primary and secondary texts, interview, biographies, and bibliographies.

lacan dot com
http://www.lacan.com/

A visually stimulating site that serves as a nice introduction to the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. It contains bibliographies of Lacan and notable Lacanian analysts, pictures of Lacan, a Lacan chronology, and a few articles by popular Lacanians such as Slavoj Zizek. Unfortunately, the site is difficult to navigate and contains little material by Lacan himself.

Manifesto of Surrealism
http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T340/SurManifesto/Mani...

A digital version of Andre Breton's "First Surrealist Manifesto."

The Paul Rosenfels Collection
http://eserver.org/gender/rosenfels/

The collected works of Paul Rosenfels, M.D., "the first American social scientist to defend homosexuality in print as a valid lifestyle."

Queer Theory Links
http://www.queerbychoice.com/qtheorylinks.html

A gateway to LGBT resources, most with a queer theory orientation. Resources include definitions of and introductions to queer theory, as well as essays by influential writiers in the field.

Sigmund Freud: The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Freud/History/

The site contains a full text version of Freud's "The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement."

Sigmund Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams
http://www.psywww.com/books/interp/toc.htm

This site offers a full text version of the third edition of Freud's seminal work.

Sigmund Freud: The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Freud/Psycho/

This site contains a full text version of The Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud.

Stanford Presidential Lectures in the Humanities and Arts
http://prelectur.stanford.edu/archive/index.html

Contains biographical and bibliographical information about past Stanford lecturers as well as interviews, essays, critical texts, and links to other relevant information on the internet. Past lecturers include the following: Isabel Allende, Homi Bhabha, Harold Bloom, Helene Cixous, Jacques Derrida, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Fredric Jameson, Elaine Scarry, and Gayatri Spivak.

Swirl
http://www.sou.edu/English/IDTC/Swirl/swirl.htm

A site devoted to postmodern theory. Offers insight into cultural studies, ethnic studies, feminism, formalism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, performativity theory, deconstruction, new historicism, and queer theory. The site uses a very loose organization scheme, but it is colorful and highly interactive.

T.S. Eliot: The Sacred Wood : Essays on Poetry and Criticism
http://www.bartleby.com/200/

A volume of literary criticism by the landmark modernist poet, T.S. Eliot. Although Eliot writes about literature, his thinking is strongly influenced by his philosophical training. To grasp Eliot's philosophy would require a lifetime of study. However, one can begin to get a feel for his ideas through a study of this famous work of criticism.

thefoucauldian
http://www.thefoucauldian.co.uk/

A growing source for those studying Michel Foucault. Includes 18 texts in html and pdf format (primary, secondary, and "truth, power, self: an interview with Michel Foucault), a full online bibliography, and links to other Foucault pages.