The Future of Theory / Edition 1

by Jean-Michel Rabaté

Overview

In this controversial manifesto, Jean-Michel Rabaté addresses current anxieties about the future of literary and cultural theory and proposes that it still has a crucial role to play.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631230137
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	08/02/2002
Series:	Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Jean-Michel Rabaté is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published books on Beckett, Bernhard, Pound, Joyce, Lacan, psychoanalysis, and literary theory. His recent books include The Ghosts of Modernity (1996), Joyce and the Politics of Egoism (2001), and Jacques Lacan and Literature (2001). He has also edited several collections of essays, including Writing the Image after Roland Barthes (1997), Jacques Lacan in America (2000), and The Cambridge Companion to Jacques Lacan (2002).

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1. Geneaology 1: Hegel's Plague 21

2. Genealogy 2: The Avant-Garde at Theory's High Tide 47

3. Theory, Science, Technology 93

4. Theory not of Literature but as Literature 117

Conclusion 141

Notes 151

Index 164

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"As with other books in this publisher's series, the intent is to engage the general educated public in a discussion of meaningful concepts, and Rabate succeeds excellently. For all public and academic collections." Library Journal

"This clearly written, well-documented study will serve graduate students, faculty and researchers." Choice

Editorial Reviews

"As with other books in this publisher's series, the intent is to engage the general educated public in a discussion of meaningful concepts, and Rabate succeeds excellently. For all public and academic collections." Library Journal

"This clearly written, well-documented study will serve graduate students, faculty and researchers." Choice

From the Publisher