TY - BOOK AU - Rabaté,Jean-Michel TI - The future of theory SN - 0631230122 AV - B842 .R33 2002 U1 - 149.21 PY - 2002/// CY - Oxford, UK, Malden, MA PB - Blackwell Publishers KW - Theory (Philosophy) N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; TOC; Introduction -- Genealogy one: Hegel's plague -- Genealogy two: the avant-garde at theory's high tide -- Theory, science, technology -- Theory not of literature but as literature -- Conclusion; Sociology N2 - This text addresses anxieties about the relevance of theory. It proposes that theory points out the inadequacies of official knowledge. Its role is to ask difficult, foundational questions, which entail revisionary rereadings of culture and its texts UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy036/2002022601.html UR - https://www.worldcat.org/title/future-of-theory/oclc/49260743&referer=brief_results UR - http://lib.ewubd.edu/ebook/4414 ER -