Rabaté The Future of Theory

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-77988-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Manifestos

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rabaté, Jean-Michel

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Jean-Michel Rabaté is Professor of English andComparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He haspublished books on Beckett, Bernhard, Pound, Joyce, Lacan,psychoanalysis, and literary theory. His recent books includeThe Ghosts of Modernity (1996), Joyce and the Politics ofEgoism (2001), and Jacques Lacan and Literature (2001).He has also edited several collections of essays, includingWriting the Image after Roland Barthes (1997), JacquesLacan in America (2000), and The Cambridge Companion toJacques Lacan (2002).