Dead Theory - Derrida, Death, and the Afterlife of Theory

What is the legacy of Theory after the deaths of so many of its leading lights, from Jacques Derrida to Roland Barthes? Bringing together reflections by leading contemporary scholars, Dead Theory explores the afterlives of the work of the great theorists and the current state of Theory today. Considering the work of thinkers such as Derrida, Deleuze, and Levinas, the book explores the ways in which Theory has long been haunted by death and how it might endure for the future.>

About the author

JEFFREY R. DI LEO is Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA. He is Editor of the journal symploke, and Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange and its Winter Theory Institute. His recent publications include The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory (Bloomsbury, 2019), What’s Wrong with Antitheory? (Bloomsbury, 2020), Vinyl Theory (2020), Happiness (2023), Selling the Humanities (2023), Dark Academe: Capitalism, Theory, and the Death Drive in Higher Education (2024), Out of Print (2024), and Theory as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2025).

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey D. Di Leo, Jeffrey R Di Leo, Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Jeffrey R. (University of Houston-Victoria Di Leo
• Assisted by: Jeffrey R. Di Leo (Editor), Jeffrey R. (University of Houston-Victoria Di Leo (Editor), Jeffrey R. Di Leo (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.05.2016
• EAN: 9781474274357
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-7435-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, Literary theory, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Structuralism, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism