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After Theory

By Thomas Docherty

Book information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9780585101347
DOI
10.1515/9780585101347
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
27 MB (28462454 bytes)
Pages
256\300
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 04:24:18

Description

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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