{"product_id":"elegy-for-theory-paperback-1","title":"Elegy for Theory - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eD. N. Rodowick\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRhetorically charged debates over theory have divided scholars of the humanities for decades. In \u003ci\u003eElegy for Theory\u003c\/i\u003e, D. N. Rodowick steps back from well-rehearsed arguments pro and con to assess why theory has become such a deeply contested concept. Far from lobbying for a return to the \"high theory\" of the 1970s and 1980s, he calls for a vigorous dialogue on what should constitute a new, ethically inflected philosophy of the humanities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRodowick develops an ambitiously cross-disciplinary critique of theory as an academic discourse, tracing its historical displacements from ancient concepts of theoria through late modern concepts of the aesthetic and into the twentieth century. The genealogy of theory, he argues, is constituted by two main lines of descent--one that goes back to philosophy and the other rooted instead in the history of positivism and the rise of the empirical sciences. Giving literature, philosophy, and aesthetics their due, Rodowick asserts that the mid-twentieth-century rise of theory within the academy cannot be understood apart from the emergence of cinema and visual studies. To ask the question, \"What is cinema?\" is to also open up in new ways the broader question of what is art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt a moment when university curriculums are everywhere being driven by scientism and market forces, \u003ci\u003eElegy for Theory\u003c\/i\u003e advances a rigorous argument for the importance of the arts and humanities as transformative, self-renewing cultural legacies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 28, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175396032761,"sku":"9780674088153","price":59.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/A3whtDx6vF9780674088153_e7a4dd3a-1c29-4de4-aa9f-cdbdc26f167d.webp?v=1767668775","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/elegy-for-theory-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}