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The Theory Toolbox

Critical Concepts for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

By: Jeffrey Thomas Nealon,Susan Searls Giroux

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The Theory Toolbox

Critical Concepts for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

By: Jeffrey Thomas Nealon,Susan Searls Giroux

This text involves students in understanding and using the "tools" of critical social and literary theory from the first day of class. It is an ideal first introduction before students encounter more difficult readings from critical and postmodern perspectives. Nealon and Searls Giroux describe key concepts and illuminate each with an engaging inquiry that asks students to consider deeper and deeper questions. Written in students' own idiom, and drawing its examples from the social world, literature, popular culture, and advertising, The Theory Toolbox offers students the language and opportunity to theorize rather than positioning them to respond to theory as a reified history of various schools of thought. Clear and engaging, it avoids facile description, inviting students to struggle with ideas and the world by virtue of the book's relentless challenge to common assumptions and its appeal to common sense. Updated throughout, the second edition of The Theory Toolbox includes a discussion of new media, as well as two new chapters on life and nature.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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0742570495

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9780742570498

Double Reading

Postmodernism After Deconstruction

By: Jeffrey Thomas Nealon

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Double Reading

Postmodernism After Deconstruction

By: Jeffrey Thomas Nealon

Looks beyond the apparent fall of deconstruction and shows that its insights have a continuing role to play in postmodernist critical debates. Outlines a postmodern approach based on Derrida's overlooked notion of "double reading"--critical analysis that begins within a traditional meaning but is supplemented by an additional reading that undermines the first. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Cornell University Press

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0801483395

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9780801483394

Alterity Politics

Ethics and Performative Subjectivity

By: Jeffrey Thomas Nealon

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Alterity Politics

Ethics and Performative Subjectivity

By: Jeffrey Thomas Nealon

An ethical reappraisal of postmodern and poststructuralist theory, including works by Levinas, Foucault, Derrida, Jameson, Zizek, and Butler.

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Duke University Press

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0822321459

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9780822321453

Alterity Politics

Ethics and Performative Subjectivity

By: Jeffrey Thomas Nealon

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Alterity Politics

Ethics and Performative Subjectivity

By: Jeffrey Thomas Nealon

An ethical reappraisal of postmodern and poststructuralist theory, including works by Levinas, Foucault, Derrida, Jameson, Zizek, and Butler.

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Fates of the Performative

From the Linguistic Turn to the New Materialism

By: Jeffrey T. Nealon

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Fates of the Performative

From the Linguistic Turn to the New Materialism

By: Jeffrey T. Nealon

A powerful new examination of the performative that asks “what’s next?” for this well-worn concept From its humble origins in J. L. Austin’s speech-act theory of the 1950s, the performative has grown to permeate wildly diverse scholarly fields, ranging from deconstruction and feminism to legal theory and even theories about the structure of matter. Here Jeffrey T. Nealon discovers how the performative will remain vital in the twenty-first century, arguing that it was never merely concerned with linguistic meaning but rather constitutes an insight into the workings of immaterial force. Fates of the Performative takes a deep dive into this “performative force” to think about the continued power and relevance of this wide-ranging concept. Offering both a history of the performative’s mutations and a diagnosis of its present state, Nealon traces how it has been deployed by key writers in the past sixty years, including foundational thinkers like Jacques Derrida, Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick, and Judith Butler; contemporary theorists such as Thomas Piketty and Antonio Negri; and the “conceptual poetry” of Kenneth Goldsmith. Ultimately, Nealon’s inquiry is animated by one powerful question: what’s living and what’s dead in performative theory? In deconstructing the reaction against the performative in current humanist thought, Fates of the Performative opens up important conversations about systems theory, animal studies, object-oriented ontology, and the digital humanities. Nealon’s stirring appeal makes a necessary declaration of the performative’s continued power and relevance at a time of neoliberal ascendancy.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452965382

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The Theory Toolbox

The Theory Toolbox

Double Reading

Double Reading

Alterity Politics

Alterity Politics

Alterity Politics

Alterity Politics

Fates of the Performative

Fates of the Performative

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