Theory in the "post" era : a vocabulary for the 21st-century conceptual commons / edited by Alexandru Matei, Christian Moraru, and Andrei Terian.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Matei, Alexandru, 1975- editor.

Moraru, Christian, editor.

Terian, Andrei, 1979- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romanian literature--21st century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Romanian literature.

Romanian literature--Philosophy.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Essays.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

xi, 361 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2022.

Summary:

"Theory in the "Post" Era brings together the work and perspectives of a group of Romanian theorists who discuss the morphings of contemporary theory in what the editors call the "post" era. Since the Cold War's end and especially in the third millennium, theorists have been exploring the aftermath - and sometimes just the "after" - of whole paradigms, the crisis or "passing" of anthropocentrism, the twilight of an entire ontological and cultural "condition," as well as the corresponding rise of an antagonist model, of an "anti," "meta," or "neo" alternative, with examples ranging from "posthumanism" and "post-postmodernism" to "post-aesthetics," "postanalog" interpretation or "digicriticism," "post-presentism," "post-memory," "post-" or "neo-critique," and so forth. It is no coincidence, the contributors to this volume argue, that this "post" moment is also a time when theory is practiced as a world genre. If theory has always been a "worlded" enterprise, a quintessentially communal, cross-cultural and international project, this is truer at present than ever. Perhaps more than other humanist constituencies, today's theorists work and belong in a theory commons that is transnational if still uneven economically, politically, and otherwise. Theory in the "Post" Era reports the results of Romanian theory experiments that join efforts made in other places to foster a theory for the "post" age"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Theory in the "post" era

ISBN:

9781501358951

1501358952

OCLC:

1227087466

Publisher Number:

99988528564