Theory and the Disappearing Future

Name: Theory and the Disappearing Future
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Paul de Man is often associated with an era of ‘high theory’, an era it is argued may now be coming to a close. This book, written by three leading contemporary scholars, includes both a transcript and facsimile print of a previously unpublished text by de Man of his handwritten notes for a lecture on Walter Benjamin. Challenging and relevant, this volume presents de Man’s work as a critical resource for dealing with the most important questions of the twenty-first century and argues for the place of theory within it. The humanities are flooded with crises of globalism, capitalism and terrorism, contemporary narratives of financial collapse, viral annihilation, species extinction, environmental disaster and terrorist destruction. Cohen, Colebrook and Miller draw out the implications of these crises and their narratives and, reflecting on this work by de Man, explore the limits of political thinking, of historical retrieval and the ethics of archives and cultural memory.

Author Biography:

Tom Cohen is Professor of Literary, Cultural and Media Studies, University at Albany, SUNY, USA. Claire Colebrook was Professor of Modern Literary Theory at the University of Edinburgh from 2000-2008 and is now a professor of English at Penn State University, USA. J. Hillis Miller is Distinguished Research Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Irvine, USA. He olds honorary degrees as Doctor of Letters from the University of Florida, Doctor of Humane Letters at Bucknell University, and Doctor Honoris Cause at the University of Zaragoza. He is also Honorary Professor of Peking University and past president of the Modern Language Association.

Release date Australia

November 10th, 2011

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General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

14 Halftones, black and white

Pages

182

ISBN-13

9780415604529

Product ID

10382657

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