Jean-Michel Rabate

The Future of Theory

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the past and future of Theory.

Claims that Theory s ongoing role is to question official knowledge.

Sketches the genealogy of Theory back to the 1960s and beyond.

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In this controversial manifesto, Jean-Michel Rabaté addresses current anxieties about the future of literary and cultural theory and proposes that it still has a crucial role to play.

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Produktdetails

• Blackwell Manifestos
• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• 2nd ed.
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 265g
• ISBN-13: 9780631230137
• ISBN-10: 0631230130
• Artikelnr.: 13619163

Autorenporträt

Jean-Michel Rabaté is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published books on Beckett, Bernhard, Pound, Joyce, Lacan, psychoanalysis, and literary theory. His recent books include The Ghosts of Modernity (1996), Joyce and the Politics of Egoism (2001), and Jacques Lacan and Literature (2001). He has also edited several collections of essays, including Writing the Image after Roland Barthes (1997), Jacques Lacan in America (2000), and The Cambridge Companion to Jacques Lacan (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1
1. Geneaology 1: Hegel's Plague 21
2. Genealogy 2: The Avant-Garde at Theory's High Tide 47
3. Theory, Science, Technology 93
4. Theory not of Literature but as Literature 117
Conclusion 141
Notes 151
Index 164

Rezensionen

"As with other books in this publisher s series, the intent is to engage the general educated public in a discussion of meaningful concepts, and Rabate succeeds excellently. For all public and academic collections." Library Journal

"This clearly written, well-documented study will serve graduate students, faculty and researchers." Choice