| After Theory Revised Edition Contributor(s): Docherty, Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0748608400 ISBN-13: 9780748608409 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $38.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1997 Annotation: After Theory proposes the emergence of a viable post-marxist attitude to theory as a means of establishing a genuine historical and materialist criticism. Ranging across the most important areas of contemporary cultural practices in literature, film, photography, philosophy, music, dance, and sculpture, Docherty makes available a post-theoretical practice which will regenerate critique under the aegis of philosophical and austere postmarxism and whose central demand is for the historical and political efficacy of the intellectual work of criticism. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 801.950 |
| LCCN: 97159534 |
| Series: Postmodern Theory |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.4" W x 8.42" (0.53 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |