Crimes of the Future Crimes of the Future

Crimes of the Future

Theory and its Global Reproduction

    • $34.99
    • $34.99

Publisher Description

The decade since the publication of Jean-Michel Rabaté's controversial manifesto The Future of Theory saw important changes in the field. The demise of most of the visible French or German philosophers, who had produced texts that would trigger new debates, then to be processed by Theory, has led to drastic revisions and starker assessments.



Globalization has been the most obvious factor to modify the selection of texts studied. During the twentieth century, Theory incorporated poetics, rhetorics, aesthetics and linguistics, while also opening itself to continental philosophy. What has changed today? The knowledge that we live in a de-centered world has destabilized the primacy granted to a purely Western canon. Moreover, much of contemporary theory remains highly allusive and this is often baffling for students. Theory keeps recycling itself, producing authentic returns of basic theses, terms and concepts. Canonical modern theorists often return to classical texts, as those of Plato, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche.



And now we want to know: what is new?



Crimes of the Future explores the past, present and potential future of Theory.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2014
April 24
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
256
Pages
PUBLISHER
Bloomsbury Academic
SELLER
Bookwire Gesellschaft zum Vertrieb digitaler Medien mbH
SIZE
5.1
MB
A William V. Spanos Reader A William V. Spanos Reader
2015
The Pathos of Distance The Pathos of Distance
2016
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Žižek Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Žižek
2017
Fiction as Knowledge Fiction as Knowledge
2018
Writers and Thinkers Writers and Thinkers
2017
Morality and the Literary Imagination Morality and the Literary Imagination
2017
After Derrida After Derrida
2018
Études françaises. Volume 51, numéro 2, 2015 Études françaises. Volume 51, numéro 2, 2015
2019
The New Samuel Beckett Studies The New Samuel Beckett Studies
2019
Think, Pig! Think, Pig!
2016
1922 1922
2015
The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis
2014