After Theory / / Thomas Docherty.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Docherty, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Postmodern Theory : POTH
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Introduction --; I Getting Going --; 1 Postmodernism --; II Excess and Extravagance --; 2 Theory, Enlightenment, Violence --; 3 Photography as Postmodern Cartography --; III Clews and Webs --; 4 Representing Postmodernism: --; 5 Postmodern (Dis)Simulation: Tauromachia and the Struggle for Europe --; IV Aural Labyrinth --; 6 Listening: Poisons in the Ear --; 7 Deterritorialisation: Ending Culture --; 8 'List, list, 0 list ...' --; V Conclusion: Going On --; 9 Postmarxism --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780585101347; 9783110780475
• DOI: 10.1515/9780585101347
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Thomas Docherty.

This book proposes the necessity of a new critical attitude appropriate to a post-enlightenment social and political condition. Theory – the intellectual and his or her knowledge – has been institutionalised and tamed; the critic interested in praxis must find a new means of establishing an effective intellection. After Theory argues the demand for a post-theoretical or ana-theoretical attitude which will recondition and regenerate critique under the aegis of a philosophical and austere postmarxism. The 'waking' of theory advanced here ranges eclectically over twentieth-century practice in philosophy, literature, painting, music, dance, architecture, film and photography, breaking theory from its institutionalised bonds.