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Future of Theory

Name: Future of Theory
Brand: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
SKU: 04899496
Price: 38.95 EUR
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Author: Jean-Michel Rabate
ISBN: 9780631230137

Jean-Michel Rabate

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English

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Libristo code: 04899496

Publishers John Wiley and Sons Ltd, June 2002

Is Theory dead? Is it, as skeptics suggest, too distant from anything 'real' to be useful, too sweep... Full description

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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.