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The States of 'theory' : history, art, and critical discourse / edited and with an introduction by David Carroll.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Irvine studies in the humanitiesPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1994.Description: viii, 316 p., [10] p. of plates. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0804722544
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Contents:
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.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks BH201.S73 1994 1 Available 33710000983333

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gift of Howard Meredith family

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.