Discipline and Practice: The (ir)resistibility of TheoryStefan Herbrechter, Ivan Callus Has theory become resistible? Has it betrayed its promise, and sold out on its practice? Should theory, after having become a discipline, still lay claims on the radical, or should it embrace its establishment within the university? What future(s) could theory have if there is (dis)agreement about its present(s) and its past(s), and what and how should it from now proceed to read? |
Contents
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Relevance and Disciplinary Resistance | 79 |
French ThinkingThinking French In Translation | 107 |
Giving Taking Leaving Belonging and the Remains of the University | 125 |
Naive Modernism and the Politics of Embarrassment | 154 |
From Althusser to Balibar | 178 |
On the Nature of Language the Epistemology of Modern Science and the Relationship Between the Two Cultures | 205 |
The Irresistibility of the Posthuman Questioning New Cultural Theory | 226 |
Notes on Contributors | 259 |
Index | 263 |
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