UID:
almahu_9948197088102882
Format:
1 online resource (v, 170 pages)
ISBN:
9780470690147
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0470690143
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9780470779880
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0470779888
Series Statement:
Blackwell manifestos
Content:
Is Theory dead? Is it, as skeptics suggest, too distant from anything 'real' to be useful, too sweeping in its referral of all texts to grand theses? Or is it a mask for fashion and self-promotion in academia? In this controversial manifesto, Jean-Michel Rabate addresses current anxieties about theory and claims that it still has a crucial role to play. Acknowledging that he cannot speak about the future of theory without taking stock of its past, Rabate starts by sketching its genealogy, particularly its relation to surrealism, philosophy, and the hard sciences. Against this background, he proposes that theory, like hysteria, consistently points out the inadequacies of official, serious and 'masterful' knowledge. Its role, he suggests, is to ask difficult, foundational questions, which entail revisionary readings of culture and its texts. In this way, Rabate claims, whether the theory of the moment is structuralism or globalization, theory in its broader sense will always return, providing us with provocative and stimulating insights into what we do and how we read.
Note:
Introduction -- Genealogy one: Hegel's plague -- Genealogy two: the avant-garde at theory's high tide -- Theory, science, technology -- Theory not of literature but as literature -- Conclusion.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Rabaté, Jean-Michel, 1949- Future of theory. Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2002 ISBN 0631230122
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780631230120
Language:
English
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.1002/9780470690147
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470690147
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470690147
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470690147
