After theory

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Docherty, Thomas, Author.

Series:

Postmodern Theory Series

Postmodern theory After theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postmodernism (Literature)--History and criticism--20th century.

Postmodernism (Literature).

Literature, Modern--20th century.

Literature, Modern.

Theory (Philosophy).

Postmodernism.

Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Edinburgh University Press 1996

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

I Getting Going

1 Postmodernism

II Excess and Extravagance

2 Theory, Enlightenment, Violence

3 Photography as Postmodern Cartography

III Clews and Webs

4 Representing Postmodernism:

5 Postmodern (Dis)Simulation: Tauromachia and the Struggle for Europe

IV Aural Labyrinth

6 Listening: Poisons in the Ear

7 Deterritorialisation: Ending Culture

8 'List, list, 0 list ...'

V Conclusion: Going On

9 Postmarxism

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-585-10134-5

OCLC:

1312727170