This volume argues that theory, far from being dead, has undergone major shifts in order to come to terms with the most urgent cultural and political questions of today. Offering an overview of theory's new directions, this groundbreaking collection includes essays on affect, biopolitics, biophilosophy, the aesthetic, and neoliberalism, as well examinations of established areas such as subaltern studies, the postcolonial, and queer theory. Influential figures such as Agamben, Arendt, Schmitt and Badiou are examined in a range of contexts. Gathering together some of the top thinkers in the field, this volume not only speculates on the fate of theory but shows its current diversity, encouraging conversation between divergent strands. Each section includes an accessible, clear introduction that places the essays in their contexts and stages a comparison between different but ultimately related ways in which key thinkers are moving beyond poststructuralism. Contributors include: Rey Chow, Claire Colebrook, Roberto Esposito, Simon Gikandi, Martin Hagglund, Peter Hallward, Brian Massumi, Jasbir Puar, Peter Osborne, Bernard Stiegler, Eugene Thacker, Cary Wolfe, and Linda Zerilli.
| ISBN | 0415484197 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9780415484190
(What's this?) | | Pages | 336 | | Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 514 | | Imprint | Routledge | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Publication date | 23 Mar 2011 | | Width (mm) | 156 | | DEWEY | 801 | | Academic level | Postgraduate |
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Introduction - Jane Elliott and Derek Attridge Assessing the Field 1. Philosophy After Theory: Transdisciplinarity and the New - Peter Osborne 2. Theory as a Research Program--the Very Idea - Cary Wolfe 3. Theory after Critical Theory - William Rasch 4. Extinct Theory - Claire Colebrook Between theory and practice: affect, will, judgment 5. Perception Attack: The Force to Own Time - Brian Massumi 6. The Will of the People: Dialectical Voluntarism and the Subject of Politics Peter Hallward 7. The Persistence of Hope: Critical Theory and Enduring in Late Liberalism - Elizabeth Povinelli 8. The Practice of Judgement: Hannah Arendt's 'Copernican Revolution' - Linda Zerilli Rethinking the politics of representation 9. When Reflexivity Becomes Porn: Mutations of a Modernist Theoretical Practice Rey Chow 10. The Canny Subaltern - Eva Cherniavsky 11. 'Theory After Postcolonial Theory: Rethinking the Work of Mimesis'- Simon Gikandi Biopolitics and ethics 12. After Life: Swarms, Demons, and the Antinomies of Immanence - Eugene Thacker 13. Inclining the Subject: Natality, Alterity, Ethics - Adriana Cavarero 14. The Person and Human Life- Roberto Esposito Renewing the aesthetic 15. The Wrong Turn of Aesthetics - Henry Staten 16. Literature after theory, or: the intellective turn Laurent Dubreuil 17. The Liberal Aesthetic - Amanda Anderson Philosophy after theory 18. The Arche-Materiality of Time: Deconstruction, Speculative Materialism, and Radical Atheism - Martin Hagglund 19. Concepts, Objects, Gems - Ray Brassier 20. The Pharmacology of the Spirit - Bernard Stiegler
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