Ten Lessons in Theory
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-8394-6 (ISBN)
The first edition of Ten Lessons served as a “literary” introduction to theoretical writing, a strong set of pedagogical prose poems unpacking Lacanian psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, Marxism, cultural studies, feminism, gender studies, and queer theory. Here Calvin Thomas returns to these ten “lessons,” each based on an axiomatic sentence selected from the canons of theory, each exploring the basic assumptions and motivations of theoretical writing. But while every lesson explains the working terms and core tenets of theory, each also attempts to exemplify theory as a “liberatory practice” (bell hooks), to liberate theory as a “practice of creativity” (Foucault) in and of itself.
The revised, updated, and expanded second edition, featuring 25% new material, still argues for theoretical writing as a genre of creative writing, a way of engaging in the art of the sentence, the art of making sentences that make trouble, that desire to make radical changes in very fabrication of social reality.
Features:
- Critical keywords bolded for easy reference
- Expanded footnotes with detailed discussion of key concepts
- Anti-racist overhaul of each lesson in the wake of Trumpism, Black Lives Matter, and #MeToo
- Urgent emphasis on Afropessimism, critical race theory, and other developments in postcolonial Black cultural production
- Designed to cross-reference with:
Adventures in Theory: A Compact Anthology, edited by Calvin Thomas
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory, edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo
The Bloomsbury Handbook to 21st Century Feminist Theory, edited by Robin Truth Goodman
Calvin Thomas is Professor of English at Georgia State University in Atlanta, USA. His publications include Adventures in Theory: A Compact Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2019), Masculinity, Psychoanalysis, Straight Queer Theory: Essays on Abjection in Literature, Mass Culture, and Film (2008), Straight with a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality (2000), and Male Matters: Masculinity, Anxiety, and the Male Body on the Line (1996).
Prologue to the Second Edition: Bad Timing, Good Trouble
Preface to the Second Edition: "Something (still) worth reading": Theory and/as the Art of the Sentence
Introductory Matters: What Theory Does, Why Theory Lives
Part 1. Antiphysis: Five Lessons in Textual Anthropogenesis
Lesson One: "The world must be made to mean"—or, in(tro)ducing the subject of human reality
Lesson Two: "Meaning is the polite word for pleasure"—or, how the beast in the nursery learns to read
Lesson Three: "Language is by nature fictional"—or, why the word for moonlight can't be moonlight
Lesson Four: "Desire must be taken literally"—a few words on death, sex, and interpretation
Lesson Five: "You are not yourself"—or, I (think, therefore I) is an other
Part 2. Extimacy: Five Lessons in the Utter Alterity of Absolute Proximity
Lesson Six: "This restlessness is us"—or, the least that can be said about Hegel
Lesson Seven: "There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism"—or, the fates of literary formalism
Lesson Eight: "The unconscious is structured like a language"—or, invasions of the signifier
Lesson Nine: "There is nothing outside the text"—or, fear of the proliferation of meaning
Lesson Ten: "One is not born a woman"—on making the world queerer than ever
Reference Matters
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 12.08.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5013-8394-9 / 1501383949 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5013-8394-6 / 9781501383946 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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