Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory

Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA. He is Editor of the American Book Review, Founding Editor of the journal symploke, and Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange and its Winter Theory Institute. His recent publications includeThe End of American Literature: Essays from the Late Age of Print (2019), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory (Bloomsbury, 2019), What’s Wrong with Antitheory? (Bloomsbury, 2020), Philosophy as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2020), and Vinyl Theory (2020).Christian Moraru is Class of 1949 Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA. His recent publications include Cosmodernism: American Narrative, Late Globalization, and the New Cultural Imaginary (2011), Reading for the Planet: Toward a Geomethodology (2015), and Romanian Literature as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2018).

• Preface and AcknowledgementsJeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston, Victoria, USA) and Christian Moraru (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA)Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: World Theory in the New MillenniumJeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston, Victoria, USA) and Christian Moraru (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA)Part 1: Arts and Humanities1. Worlding HistoryFabio López-Lázaro (University of Hawaii, Manoa, USA)2. Worlding PhilosophyBrian O’Keeffe (Barnard College, USA)3. Worlding EthicsNigel Dower (University of Aberdeen, UK)4. Worlding ArtNikos Papastergiadis (University of Melbourne, Australia) 5. Worlding PostmodernismHans Bertens (Utrecht University, Netherlands)6. Worlding Comparative LiteratureChristian Moraru (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA)7. Worlding Popular CultureEsther Peeren (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)8. Worlding MusicJohn Mowitt (University of Leeds, UK)9. Worlding CinemaAlex Taek-Gwang Lee (Kyung Hee University, Korea)10. Worlding TheaterGina MacKenzie (Holy Family University, USA)11. Worlding ReligionGerda Heck (American University of Cairo, Egypt) and Stephan Lanz (Europa-Universität Viadrina, Germany) Part 2: Social and Behavioral Sciences12. Worlding SociologyVeronika Wittmann (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)13. Worlding AnthropologyNigel Rapport (University of St. Andrews, UK)14. Worlding EconomicsPeter Hitchcock (City University of New York, USA) 15. Worlding PsychoanalysisDany Nobus (Brunel University, UK)16. Worlding WomenRobin Goodman (Florida State University, USA)17. Worlding GenderVrushali Patil (Florida International University, USA) 18. Worlding QueerSri Craven (Portland State University, USA)19. Worlding IdentityZahi Zalloua (Whitman College, USA)Part 3: The Professions20. Worlding Higher EducationMichael Thomas (Liverpool John Moore University, UK) 21. Worlding Public PolicyKenneth J. Saltman (University of Illinois, Chicago, USA)22. Worlding International EducationLien Pham (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)23. Worlding International RelationsSophia McClennen (Penn State University, USA)24. Worlding Media StudiesToby Miller (Loughborough University London, UK) and Jesús Arroyave (Universidad del Norte, Colombia)25. Worlding Journalism Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova (University of Liverpool, UK)26. Worlding PublishingJeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston, Victoria, USA)27. Worlding ArchitectureRichard Ingersoll (Politecnico de Milano, Italy)Part 4: Natural and Formal Sciences28. Worlding LogicPaul Livingston (University of New Mexico, USA)29. Worlding Spatiality StudiesRobert T. Tally Jr. (Texas State University, USA)30. Worlding Cybernetics Andrew Culp (California Institute for the Arts, USA)31. Worlding Systems TheoryBruce Clarke (Texas Tech University, USA)32. Worlding BiologyAdam Nocek (Arizona State University, USA)33. Worlding Environmental StudiesRobert P. Marzec (Purdue University, USA)34. Worlding Earth and Climate StudiesClaire Colebrook (Penn State University, USA)Index

Undoubtedly, this Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory is the most unusual English-language handbook I have encountered this year: original, inspiring, thought-provoking, and diversified. Because of its interdisciplinary — and even transdisciplinary — scope, the Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory is indispensable for research libraries and would serve as an eye-opener for open-minded scholars in an infinity of domains. It reaffirms the pertinence (or the urgency?) of doing theory in a globalized world. Reading this Handbook from one cover to another can be a rewarding experience, no matter in which academic filed you locate yourself. These contributors want to bring the reader beyond.