The Ends of Theory

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Jerry Herron
Wayne State University Press, 1996 - Education - 326 pages
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.

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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
Index
308

Theory and the Crisis
135

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