The Ends of TheoryJerry Herron Featuring diverse disciplines and including creative as well as critical work, The Ends of Theory both exemplifies the impact of critical theory and questions its future. The sixteen essays in this anthology reflect on the nature and purpose of theoretical work in the humanities and succeed in bridging critical and creative production. Contributors include Arthur Danto, Paul A. Bové, Bob Perelman, and Steve McCaffery. |
Contents
The Ends of Theory Wallace Martin | 14 |
Nonnarrative and the Construction of History | 30 |
Some Notes on the Critics Search for Authority | 36 |
De Mans End Steven E Cole | 49 |
In the Name of Theory Sharon Willis | 76 |
Said Herodotus and | 86 |
From Ends of Theory to Theories of the End Wallace Martin | 104 |
Aims and Ends | 119 |
On the Alleged Shift in the Humanities | 146 |
Postmodern Philosopher? Ronald Bogue | 166 |
Aesthetics and Poetics | 183 |
The Idiot as ArtistThe Idiot as Critic | 198 |
Barrett Watten | 209 |
The New Sentence in Theory and Practice | 246 |
Afterwords Ross J Pudaloff Dorothy Huson Robert Strozier | 272 |
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