After Theory

Thomas Docherty

Published by Edinburgh University Press 1997

After Theory

Thomas Docherty

In the series Postmodern Theory

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780585101347

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This book proposes the necessity of a new critical attitude appropriate to a post-enlightenment social and political condition. Theory – the intellectual and his or her knowledge – has been institutionalised and tamed; the critic interested in praxis must find a new means of establishing an effective intellection. After Theory argues the demand for a post-theoretical or ana-theoretical attitude which will recondition and regenerate critique under the aegis of a philosophical and austere postmarxism. The 'waking' of theory advanced here ranges eclectically over twentieth-century practice in philosophy, literature, painting, music, dance, architecture, film and photography, breaking theory from its institutionalised bonds.

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Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I Getting Going
1 Postmodernism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
II Excess and Extravagance
2 Theory, Enlightenment, Violence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
3 Photography as Postmodern Cartography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
III Clews and Webs
4 Representing Postmodernism: Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
5 Postmodern (Dis)Simulation: Tauromachia and the Struggle for Europe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
IV Aural Labyrinth
6 Listening: Poisons in the Ear Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
7 Deterritorialisation: Ending Culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
8 'List, list, 0 list ...' Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
V Conclusion: Going On
9 Postmarxism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	262
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Keywords: Literary Studies

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Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9780585101347