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Rhetorically charged debates over theory have divided scholars of the humanities for decades. In Elegy for Theory, D. N. Rodowick steps back from well-rehearsed arguments pro and con to assess why theory has become such a deeply contested concept. Far from lobbying for a return to the "high the...
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Rodowick, D. N., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Elegy for Theory / D. N. Rodowick. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (297 p.) : 1 halftone text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- In Place of Beginning ... -- 1. A Compass in a Moving World -- 2. Many Lines of Descent -- 3. Th eoria as Practical Philosophy -- 4. The Sage Is Wise Only in Theory -- 5. Variations and Discontinuities: Aesthetic -- 6. How Art Found Theory -- 7. Philosophy before the Arts -- 8. The Rarity of Theory -- 9. On the History of Film Theory -- 10. Genres of Theory -- 11. Excursus: Ricciotto Canudo and the Aesthetic Discourse -- 12. On the Way to Language -- 13. The Travels of Formalism -- 14. An Uncertain and Irrational Art -- 15. A Small History of Structuralism -- 16. After the Long Eclipse -- 17. An Object, a Method, a Domain -- 18. A Care for the Claims of Theory -- 19. The Sense of an Ending -- 20. "Suddenly, an Age of Theory" -- 21. The Fifth Element -- 22. "A Struggle without End, Exterior and Interior" -- 23. Becoming a Subject in Theory -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Rhetorically charged debates over theory have divided scholars of the humanities for decades. In Elegy for Theory, D. N. Rodowick steps back from well-rehearsed arguments pro and con to assess why theory has become such a deeply contested concept. Far from lobbying for a return to the "high theory" of the 1970s and 1980s, he calls for a vigorous dialogue on what should constitute a new, ethically inflected philosophy of the humanities. Rodowick develops an ambitiously cross-disciplinary critique of theory as an academic discourse, tracing its historical displacements from ancient concepts of theoria through late modern concepts of the aesthetic and into the twentieth century. The genealogy of theory, he argues, is constituted by two main lines of descent--one that goes back to philosophy and the other rooted instead in the history of positivism and the rise of the empirical sciences. Giving literature, philosophy, and aesthetics their due, Rodowick asserts that the mid-twentieth-century rise of theory within the academy cannot be understood apart from the emergence of cinema and visual studies. To ask the question, "What is cinema?" is to also open up in new ways the broader question of what is art. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Motion pictures Philosophy. PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014 9783110369526 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Philosophy 2014 9783110370393 ZDB-23-DPH Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665901 print 9780674046696 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674726086 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674726086 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674726086.jpg |
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