Paul Allen Miller

Theory Does Not Exist (eBook, ePUB)

Comparative Ancient and Modern Explorations in Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, and Rhetoric

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a wide-ranging collection of essays that makes the case for the humanities as central to our self-understanding, for theory as the latest incarnation of a perennial concern with the relation between words and things, and for the ancient as constitutive of the modern. Theory Does Not Exist: Comparative Ancient and Modern Explorations in Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, and Rhetoric makes a strong argument for a comparative approach to what we term "theory" today. It argues that our disciplinary boundaries create artificial divisions between philosophy, rhetoric, and literature, which historically would not have been recognized and have come to function as conceptual straitjackets.

These essays contend that a concerted engagement with the crucial texts in these debates over the last 2500 years not only offers a better understanding of the issues involved but also provides the necessary political, ethical, and existential tools for fashioning a better and more inclusive life. They offer extended readings of Plato, Cicero, and Sophocles, as well as Derrida, Foucault, Irigaray, Kristeva, Zizek, and Lacan. Theory Does Not Exist offers a full-throated defense of the humanities and crucial counterarguments against the reduction of education to the vocational and the operational.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839990861
• Artikelnr.: 70335810

Autorenporträt

Paul Allen Miller is Carolina Distinguished Professor at the University of South Carolina and Distinguished Guest Professor at Ewha Womans University. He has authored ten books and numerous articles.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Theory Does Not Exist: An Introduction
Chapter 1 Debits and Credits or Accounting for My Life: A Defense of Reading and Humanistic Education
Chapter 2 The Trouble with Theory: A Comparatist Manifesto
Chapter 3 Placing the Self in the Field of Truth: Irony and Self-Fashioning in Ancient and Postmodern Rhetorical Theory
Chapter 4 Rhetoric and Deconstruction: Plato, the Sophists, and Philosophy
Chapter 5 The Platonic Remainder: Derrida's Khôra and the Corpus Platonicum
Chapter 6 Cicero Reads Derrida Reading Cicero: A Politics and a Friendship to Come
Chapter 7 On Borders, Race, and Infinite Hospitality: Foucault, Derrida, and Camus
Chapter 8 Sartre, Politics, and Psychoanalysis: It Don't Mean a Thing If It Aint Got Das Ding
Chapter 9 Enjoyment beyond the Pleasure Principle: Antigone, Julian of Norwich, and the Use of Pleasures
Chapter 10 Lacan le con: Luce Tells Jacques Off
Chapter 11 The Repeatable and the Unrepeatable: iek and the Future of the Humanities, or Assessing Socrates
Chapter 12 Theory Does Not Exist
Index