Offering Theory - Reading in Sociography

A reading of Theory that in tracing when and where Theory arises in the event of reading, proposes how Theory might best be handled in the context of higher education today.

List of contents

Acknowledgments; The Pretext; Introduction: Theory in Limbo; 1. Queer Resistance: Foucault and the Unnamable; 2. Stumbling on Analysis: Psychoanalysis and Everyday Life; 3. Strangers in Analysis: Nationalism and the Talking Cure; 4. "Jamming"; 5. WWJD?; 6. What Said Said; 7. Apart from Theory; 8. Conclusion: Theory Is Out There; References; Index.

About the author

John Mowitt is Professor and Leadership Chair in the Critical Humanities at the University of Leeds. He is also a senior editor of Cultural Critique.

Summary

A reading of Theory that in tracing when and where Theory arises in the event of reading, proposes how Theory might best be handled in the context of higher education today.

Product details

• Authors: John Mowitt
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781839982347
• ISBN: 978-1-83998-234-7
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: Anthem symploke Studies in Theory; Anthem Symploke Studies in The
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day