Adventures in Theory

Name: Adventures in Theory
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SKU: 9781501336324
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A Compact Anthology

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Adventures in Theory offers a compact yet powerful collection of seminal theoretical writings. It traverses key thinkers from Marx and Nietzsche to Foucault, Derrida, Butler, Zizek, and Edelman, aiming to unsettle entrenched assumptions and provoke fresh thinking. This minimalist anthology captures the disruptive spirit of theory, providing readers with a stimulating overview that challenges familiar ideas and identities.
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This book is ideal for students, educators, and readers interested in critical theory, philosophy, and cultural studies, especially those seeking a concise yet profound introduction to key theoretical concepts and thinkers.

A concise anthology of writings that are indispensable to an understanding of theory.

A concise anthology of writings that are indispensable to an understanding of theory.

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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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Praised for its clarity and curation, Adventures in Theory is celebrated as a revitalising and manageable anthology. Jean-Michel Rabaté commends it as a refreshing intellectual adventure, while Mari Ruti highlights its value for teaching, noting it brilliantly condenses essential theory for undergraduate courses and serves as a perfect companion to related works.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781501336324

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 November 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

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Edited by Professor Calvin Thomas

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 412g

Pages: 320

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism

About the Author

Calvin Thomas is Professor of English at Georgia State University, USA. He is the author of Ten Lessons in Theory (Bloomsbury, 2013), Masculinity, Psychoanalysis, Straight Queer Theory (2008), and Male Matters (1996). He is the editor of Straight with a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality (2000).