Elegy for Theory - Brossura

Rodowick, D. N.

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ISBN 10: 0674088158 ISBN 13: 9780674088153

Casa editrice: Harvard Univ Pr, 2015

Riassunto

Rhetorically charged debates over theory have divided humanities scholars for decades. Rodowick steps back from arguments pro and con to assess why theory has become such a deeply contested concept. Far from lobbying for a return to the “high theory” of the 1980s, he calls for dialogue on an ethically inflected philosophy of the humanities.

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Rodowick s project is not merely to make yet another intervention in the often rhetorically-charged debates in favor of or against theory that have occupied, divided, and haunted scholars across the humanities in the last decades. Instead, he opens the space for a historical, intellectual, and philosophical journey in quest of the senses of theory that is simultaneously an ethical and political commitment to a specific vision of what the humanities are and should continue to be in the twenty-first century. --Paola Marrati, Johns Hopkins University"

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• Editore: Harvard Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0674088158
• ISBN 13: 9780674088153
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 281