After Theory

After Theory
Title After Theory PDF eBook
Author Terry Eagleton
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 278
Release 2004-08-26
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0141927887

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The golden age of cultural theory (the product of a decade and a half, from 1965 to 1980) is long past. We are living now in its aftermath, in an age which, having grown rich in the insights of thinkers like Althusser, Barthes and Derrida, has also moved beyond them. What kind of new, fresh thinking does this new era demand? Eagleton concludes that cultural theory must start thinking ambitiously again - not so that it can hand the West its legitimation, but so that it can seek to make sense of the grand narratives in which it is now embroiled.

Theory After Theory

Theory After Theory
Title Theory After Theory PDF eBook
Author Nicholas Birns
Publisher Broadview Press
Pages 346
Release 2010-06-14
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1770482539

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Theory After Theory provides an overview of developments in literary theory after 1950. It is intended both as a handbook for readers to learn about theory and an intellectual history of the recent past in literary criticism for those interested in seeing how it fits in with the larger culture. Accessible but rigorous, this book provides a wealth of historical and intellectual context that allows the reader to make sense of the movements in recent literary theory.

Theory After 'Theory'

Theory After 'Theory'
Title Theory After 'Theory' PDF eBook
Author Jane Elliott
Publisher Routledge
Pages 369
Release 2011-03-25
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1136827404

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This volume argues that theory, far from being dead, has undergone major shifts in order to come to terms with the most urgent cultural and political questions of today. Offering an overview of theory’s new directions, this groundbreaking collection includes essays on affect, biopolitics, biophilosophy, the aesthetic, and neoliberalism, as well as examinations of established areas such as subaltern studies, the postcolonial, and ethics. Influential figures such as Agamben, Badiou, Arendt, Deleuze, Derrida and Meillassoux are examined in a range of contexts. Gathering together some of the top thinkers in the field, this volume not only speculates on the fate of theory but shows its current diversity, encouraging conversation between divergent strands. Each section places the essays in their contexts and stages a comparison between different but ultimately related ways in which key thinkers are moving beyond poststructuralism. Contributors: Amanda Anderson, Ray Brassier, Adriana Cavarero, Eva Cherniavsky, Rey Chow, Claire Colebrook, Laurent Dubreuil, Roberto Esposito, Simon Gikandi, Martin Hagglünd, Peter Hallward, Brian Massumi, Peter Osborne, Elizabeth Povinelli, William Rasch, Henry Staten, Bernard Stiegler, Eugene Thacker, Cary Wolfe, Linda Zerilli.

Montaigne after Theory, Theory after Montaigne

Montaigne after Theory, Theory after Montaigne
Title Montaigne after Theory, Theory after Montaigne PDF eBook
Author Zahi Zalloua
Publisher University of Washington Press
Pages 320
Release 2011-07-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 029580047X

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Essayist Michel de Montaigne is one of the most accessible and widely read authors in world literature. His skepticism and relativism, and the personal quality of his writing, make him a perennial favorite among readers today. Montaigne After Theory / Theory After Montaigne pursues the idea that theory has altered the scholarly understanding of Montaigne, while Montaigne's ideas have simultaneously challenged the authority of the various interpretive doxa collectively known as "theory." Montaigne's life and writings have drawn myriad interpretations. While some scholars of his work focus on the content of the writings to define the man, others stress his playful use of language. Montaigne's complex and multifaceted works provide fertile ground for exploring themes of wide-ranging significance within the field of literary theory, including the relationship between biography and theory; the critique of modernism; a critical history of the confessional mode of writing; sexuality and gender; and the theory of practice. The essays in this collection move beyond the current stalemate in Montaigne criticism by revisiting questions about the role of theory in literary studies and by opening up a dialogue on the validity and limitations, or use and abuse, of theory in Montaigne studies.

Situational Analysis

Situational Analysis
Title Situational Analysis PDF eBook
Author Adele E. Clarke
Publisher SAGE
Pages 409
Release 2005-03-23
Genre Reference
ISBN 0761930566

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Providing an introduction to situational analysis, Adele E. Clarke outlines how this method differs from and is superior to grounded theory and to qualitative data analysis.

Reason After Its Eclipse

Reason After Its Eclipse
Title Reason After Its Eclipse PDF eBook
Author Martin Jay
Publisher University of Wisconsin Pres
Pages 266
Release 2016-04-21
Genre History
ISBN 029930650X

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Tackles a question as old as Plato and still pressing today: What is reason, and what roles does and should it have in human endeavor? The eminent intellectual historian Martin Jay surveys Western ideas of reason, particularly in German philosophy from Kant to Habermas.

After Derrida

After Derrida
Title After Derrida PDF eBook
Author Jean-Michel Rabaté
Publisher
Pages 247
Release 2018-05-31
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1108426107

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This collection of essays introduces the ideas of philosopher Jacques Derrida who exerts a huge influence on literary criticism.