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The future of theory / Jean-Michel Rabaté.

By: Rabaté, Jean-Michel, 1949-Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Blackwell manifestosPublication details: Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2002. Description: v, 170 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 0631230122; 9780631230120; 0631230130 (pbk.); 9780631230137Subject(s): Theory (Philosophy)DDC classification: 149.21 LOC classification: B842 | .R33 2002Online resources: Table of contents | WorldCat details | E-Book Fulltext
Contents:
TOC Introduction -- Genealogy one: Hegel's plague -- Genealogy two: the avant-garde at theory's high tide -- Theory, science, technology -- Theory not of literature but as literature -- Conclusion.
Summary: This text addresses anxieties about the relevance of theory. It proposes that theory points out the inadequacies of official knowledge. Its role is to ask difficult, foundational questions, which entail revisionary rereadings of culture and its texts.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

TOC Introduction --
Genealogy one: Hegel's plague --
Genealogy two: the avant-garde at theory's high tide --
Theory, science, technology --
Theory not of literature but as literature --
Conclusion.

This text addresses anxieties about the relevance of theory. It proposes that theory points out the inadequacies of official knowledge. Its role is to ask difficult, foundational questions, which entail revisionary rereadings of culture and its texts.

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