What’s Wrong with Antitheory?

• Utgivningsdatum: 2021-05-20
• Mått: 156 x 234 x 22 mm
• Vikt: 426 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 304
• Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• ISBN: 9781350234475

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Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Professor of English and Philosophy and Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences 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 previous publications include Dead Theory: Derrida, Death, and the Afterlife of Theory (2016), American Literature as World Literature (2017), and The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory (2019).

In the introduction to this collection, Di Leo (English and philosophy, Univ. of Houston, Victoria) addresses the issues of theory in the 21st century. Most of the contributors of the 14 essays are drawn from the humanities, notably literature and philosophy. The essays approach theory through the perspective of "antitheory,” which began as a resistance to theory but inevitably broadened its reach. Di Leo organizes the collection in three sections: “Antitheory as Theory" (five essays), “Reading as Antitheory" (five essays), and "Philosophy, Theory, and Antitheory" (four essays). The collection is timely, as university structures succumb to neoliberal pressures to commodify the humanities. Over the past 50 years or so theory has been denigrated as the death knell for the humanities; the implicit argument of the present collection is that theory is a way to save the humanities. Addressing the contemporary state of the humanities from both historical and conceptual viewpoints, What’s Wrong with Antitheory opens a necessary discussion. Summing Up: Recommended.

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