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Description:‘Shall I batter the cat, and then stewit, thus turning the cru to the cuit?And when I am had up for cru-elty, plead it was only écrit?’– Penny McCarthyTheory is its own language, requiring an act of translation on the critic’s part. The challenge of writing about it is to respect its ‘rhetorical high wire’ while at the same time bringing it back to earth, so that its claims can be appraised in more plainspoken prose. The writers in this book rise to the challenge with aplomb, and the result is a compact, perceptive and highly entertaining history of theory, featuring vivid, revealing portraits of some of its key figures, and illuminating accounts of its crises. For theory’s destiny, like that of any secular faith, was to travel, and be transformed along the way. It ultimately became institutionalised in American universities, where radical ideas go to die. But before that happened, it had the power to detonate intellectual strife. This volume helps us to recall a moment when theory was exciting, disruptive, even a little dangerous.Featuring: Pierre Bourdieu, Brigid Brophy, Judith Butler, Terry Eagleton, Frank Kermode, Penny McCarthy, Richard Rorty, Lorna Sage, Adam Shatz, John Sturrock, Sherry Turkle and Michael Wood.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Meaninglessness of Meaning: Writing about the Theory Wars from the London Review of Books. To get started finding The Meaninglessness of Meaning: Writing about the Theory Wars from the London Review of Books, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 134

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: London Review of Books

Release: 2020

ISBN: 1999636198

Description: ‘Shall I batter the cat, and then stewit, thus turning the cru to the cuit?And when I am had up for cru-elty, plead it was only écrit?’– Penny McCarthyTheory is its own language, requiring an act of translation on the critic’s part. The challenge of writing about it is to respect its ‘rhetorical high wire’ while at the same time bringing it back to earth, so that its claims can be appraised in more plainspoken prose. The writers in this book rise to the challenge with aplomb, and the result is a compact, perceptive and highly entertaining history of theory, featuring vivid, revealing portraits of some of its key figures, and illuminating accounts of its crises. For theory’s destiny, like that of any secular faith, was to travel, and be transformed along the way. It ultimately became institutionalised in American universities, where radical ideas go to die. But before that happened, it had the power to detonate intellectual strife. This volume helps us to recall a moment when theory was exciting, disruptive, even a little dangerous.Featuring: Pierre Bourdieu, Brigid Brophy, Judith Butler, Terry Eagleton, Frank Kermode, Penny McCarthy, Richard Rorty, Lorna Sage, Adam Shatz, John Sturrock, Sherry Turkle and Michael Wood.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Meaninglessness of Meaning: Writing about the Theory Wars from the London Review of Books. To get started finding The Meaninglessness of Meaning: Writing about the Theory Wars from the London Review of Books, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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