Rhetorically charged debates over theory have divided scholars of
the humanities for decades. In Elegy for Theory, D. N. Rodowick
steps back from well-rehearsed arguments pro and con to assess why
theory has become such a deeply contested concept. Far from
lobbying for a return to the "high theory" of the 1970s and 1980s,
he calls for a vigorous dialogue on what should constitute a new,
ethically inflected philosophy of the humanities. Rodowick develops
an ambitiously cross-disciplinary critique of theory as an academic
discourse, tracing its historical displacements from ancient
concepts of theoria through late modern concepts of the aesthetic
and into the twentieth century. The genealogy of theory, he argues,
is constituted by two main lines of descent-one that goes back to
philosophy and the other rooted instead in the history of
positivism and the rise of the empirical sciences. Giving
literature, philosophy, and aesthetics their due, Rodowick asserts
that the mid-twentieth-century rise of theory within the academy
cannot be understood apart from the emergence of cinema and visual
studies. To ask the question, "What is cinema?" is to also open up
in new ways the broader question of what is art. At a moment when
university curriculums are everywhere being driven by scientism and
market forces, Elegy for Theory advances a rigorous argument for
the importance of the arts and humanities as transformative,
self-renewing cultural legacies.
General
| Imprint: |
Harvard University Press
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
September 2015 |
| Authors: |
D.N. Rodowick
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| Dimensions: |
149 x 229 x 26mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
304 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-674-08815-3 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
Philosophy >
General
Books >
Philosophy >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-674-08815-8 |
| Barcode: |
9780674088153 |
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