The Future of Theory

1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-631-23013-7
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 268 g

In this controversial manifesto, Jean-Michel Rabaté addresses current anxieties about the future of literary and cultural theory and proposes that it still has a crucial role to play.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rabaté, Jean-Michel

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1

1. Geneaology 1: Hegel's Plague 21

2. Genealogy 2: The Avant-Garde at Theory's High Tide 47

3. Theory, Science, Technology 93

4. Theory not of Literature but as Literature 117

Conclusion 141

Notes 151

Index 164

Über Autor(innen)

Jean-Michel Rabaté is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published books on Beckett, Bernhard, Pound, Joyce, Lacan, psychoanalysis, and literary theory. His recent books include The Ghosts of Modernity (1996), Joyce and the Politics of Egoism (2001), and Jacques Lacan and Literature (2001). He has also edited several collections of essays, including Writing the Image after Roland Barthes (1997), Jacques Lacan in America (2000), and The Cambridge Companion to Jacques Lacan (2002).