Theory category: 79975 books
New Formalist Criticism
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
New Formalist Criticism defines and theorizes a mode of formalist criticism that is theoretically compatible with current thinking about literature and theory. New formalism anticipates a move in literary studies back towards the text and, in so doing, establishes itself as one of the most exciting areas of contemporary critical theory.
Critics at Work
Interviews 1993-2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Featuring interviews with nineteen leading U.S. literary and cultural critics, Critics at Work offers a unique picture of recent developments in literary studies, critical theory, American studies, gay and lesbian studies, philosophy, and other fields. It provides informative, timely, and often provocative...
by Hans-Georg Moeller
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998) was a German sociologist and system theorist who wrote on law, economics, politics, art, religion, ecology, mass media, and love. Luhmann advocated a radical constructivism and antihumanism, or "grand theory," to explain society within a universal theoretical framework....
Colonial Desire
Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2005
The language of contemporary cultural theory shows remarkable similarities with the patterns of thought which characterised Victorian racial theory. Far from being marked by a separation from the racialised thinking of the past, Colonial Desire shows we are operating in complicity with historical...
Pathologies of Reason
On the Legacy of Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Axel Honneth has been instrumental in advancing the work of the Frankfurt School of critical theorists, rebuilding their effort to combine radical social and political analysis with rigorous philosophical inquiry. These eleven essays published over the past five years reclaim the relevant themes of...
The Schenker Project
Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-de-siècle Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2007
Today we think of Heinrich Schenker, who lived in Vienna from 1884 until his death in 1935, as the most influential music theorist of the twentieth century. But he saw his theoretical writings as part of a comprehensive project for the reform of musical composition, performance, criticism, and education-and...
Aesthetic Hysteria
The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Aesthetic Hysteria is a deconstructive psychoanalytic study of hysteria, using literary texts to foreground a telling encounter between two growing discourses within English studies: that of emotion/affect and trauma studies. It brings together several academic foci - the history of medicine, aesthetic...
Mediterranean Modernisms
The Poetic Metaphysics of Odysseus Elytis
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Engaging with the work of Nobel Prize-winning poet Odysseus Elytis within the framework of international modernism, Marinos Pourgouris places the poet's work in the context of other modernist and surrealist writers in Europe. At the same time, Pourgouris puts forward a redefinition of European Modernism...
Before Anarchy
Hobbes and his Critics in Modern International Thought
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
How did the 'Hobbesian state of nature' and the 'discourse of anarchy' - separated by three centuries - come to be seen as virtually synonymous? Before Anarchy offers a novel account of Hobbes's interpersonal and international state of nature and rejects two dominant views. In one, international relations...
Reappraisals
Shifting Alignments in Postwar Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Reappraisals is a provocative account of the development of modern critical theory in Germany and the United States. Focusing on the period since World War II, Peter Uwe Hohendahl explores key debates on the function of critical theory, illuminating the diverse positions and alliances among the participants....
Critical Theory and Feeling
The Affective Politics of the Early Frankfurt School
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
This book offers a unique and timely reading of the early Frankfurt School in response to the recent 'affective turn' within the arts and humanities. Resisting the overly rationalist tendencies of political philosophy, it argues that critical theory actively cultivates a powerful connection between...
Classical Social Contract Theory
The Classical Social Contract Theories of Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau Compared
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2009
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: 80%= good, University of Kerala (Department of Political Science), course: Political Theory- Liberal Tradition, language: English, abstract: This essay compares the classical social contract...
by Ludwig von Mises
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
First published in German in 1933 and in English in 1960, Epistemological Problems of Economics presents Ludwig von Mises’s views on the logical and epistemological features of social interpretation as well as his argument that the Austrian theory of value is the core element of a general theory...
Simple Forms
Legend, Saga, Myth, Riddle, Saying, Case, Memorabile, Fairytale, Joke
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
A seminal text in literary theory available in English for the first time
Legend, saga, myth, riddle, saying, case, memorabile, fairy tale, joke: André Jolles understands each of these nine “simple forms” as the reflection in language of a distinct mode of human engagement with the world...