Adventures in Theory - A Compact Anthology

The purpose of art, according to the artist Banksy, is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. The purpose of that creative practice called "theory" is to disturb everyone-to perpetually unsettle all our staid assumptions, all our fixed understandings, all our familiar identities. An alternative to the typically large and unwieldy theory anthology, Adventures in Theory offers a manageably short collection of writings that have famously enacted the central purpose of theory. Adventures in Theory takes readers on a steadily unsettling tour, spanning the most significant thought provocations in the history of theoretical writing from Marx and Nietzsche through Foucault and Derrida to Butler, Zizek, and Edelman. Engagingly lean and enjoyably mean, this is a minimalist anthology with maximal impact.>

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• Authors: Calvin Thomas, Calvin (Georgia State University Thomas
• Assisted by: Calvin Thomas (Editor), Calvin (Georgia State University Thomas (Editor), Professor Calvin (Georgia State University Thomas (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781501336331
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-3633-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Popular philosophy, Anthologies: general, Literary theory, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, Anthologies (non-poetry)