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The States of 'theory' : history, art, and critical discourse

This book constitutes a critical investigation and rethinking of the grounds and possibilities of theory and the place and critical function theory can serve within various disciplines, notably history and aesthetics.
Print Book, English, ©1990
Columbia University Press, New York, ©1990
Aufsatzsammlung
viii, 316 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780231070867, 9780804722544, 0231070861, 0804722544
20167784
Introduction : the States of "theory" and the future of history and art / David Carroll
Are we being historical yet? / Carolyn Porter
Some statements and truisms about neo-logisms, newisms, postisms, parasitisms, and other small seismisms / Jacques Derrida
History beyond social theory / Lynn Hunt
Machiavelli : history, politics, discourse / Claude Lefort
Spatial equivalents : postmodern architecture and the world system / Fredric Jameson
Finite history / Jean-Luc Nancy
The blink of an eye / Rosalind E. Krauss
The aesthetic and the imaginary / Wolfgang Iser
The semiotic desire for the natural sign : poetic uses and political abuses / Murray Krieger
Toward a model for the history of theater /Juan Villegas
Face to face : Plato's Protagoras as a model for collective research in the humanities / J. Hillis Miller
After the sublime : the State of aesthetics / Jean-Franc̜ois Lyotard