Theory Does Not Exist - Comparative Ancient Modern Explorations in Psychoanalysis,

A wide-ranging collection of essays that makes the case for the humanities as central to our self-understanding, for theory as the latest incarnation of a perennial concern with the relation between words and things, and for the ancient as constitutive of the modern.

List of contents

Acknowledgments; Theory Does Not Exist: An Introduction; Chapter 1 Debits and Credits or Accounting for My Life: A Defense of Reading and Humanistic Education; Chapter 2 The Trouble with Theory: A Comparatist Manifesto; Chapter 3 Placing the Self in the Field of Truth: Irony and Self-Fashioning in Ancient and Postmodern Rhetorical Theory; Chapter 4 Rhetoric and Deconstruction: Plato, the Sophists, and Philosophy; Chapter 5 The Platonic Remainder: Derrida's Khôra and the Corpus Platonicum; Chapter 6 Cicero Reads Derrida Reading Cicero: A Politics and a Friendship to Come; Chapter 7 On Borders, Race, and Infinite Hospitality: Foucault, Derrida, and Camus; Chapter 8 Sartre, Politics, and Psychoanalysis: It Don't Mean a Thing If It Aint Got Das Ding; Chapter 9 Enjoyment beyond the Pleasure Principle: Antigone, Julian of Norwich, and the Use of Pleasures; Chapter 10 Lacan le con: Luce Tells Jacques Off; Chapter 11 The Repeatable and the Unrepeatable: Žižek and the Future of the Humanities, or Assessing Socrates; Chapter 12 Theory Does Not Exist; Index

About the author

Paul Allen Miller is Carolina Distinguished Professor at the University of South Carolina and Distinguished Guest Professor at Ewha Womans University. He has authored ten books and numerous articles.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Allen Miller, Miller Paul Allen
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2024
• EAN: 9781839990854
• ISBN: 978-1-83999-085-4
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Anthem symploke Studies in Theory; Anthem Symploke Studies in The
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > History; Essays, PHILOSOPHY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature, Literature: history & criticism, Literary essays, Literary theory, Psychoanalysis; Deconstruction; and Rhetoric