The Theory Toolbox: Critical Concepts For The Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences (Culture And Politics Series) - Couverture souple

Nealon, Jeffrey

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0742570509 ISBN 13 : 9780742570504

Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011

Synopsis

This text involves students in understanding and using the "tools" of critical social and literary theory from the first day of class. It is an ideal first introduction before students encounter more difficult readings from critical and postmodern perspectives.

Nealon and Searls Giroux describe key concepts and illuminate each with an engaging inquiry that asks students to consider deeper and deeper questions. Written in students' own idiom, and drawing its examples from the social world, literature, popular culture, and advertising, The Theory Toolbox offers students the language and opportunity to theorize rather than positioning them to respond to theory as a reified history of various schools of thought. Clear and engaging, it avoids facile description, inviting students to struggle with ideas and the world by virtue of the book's relentless challenge to common assumptions and its appeal to common sense.

Updated throughout, the second edition of The Theory Toolbox includes a discussion of new media, as well as two new chapters on life and nature.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Jeffrey T. Nealon is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Philosophy at Penn State University, USA, and he has published widely on humanities theory (ten books and more than fifty articles).

Susan Searls Giroux is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She is the author of five books and more than thirty articles and book chapters on US racial politics, the persistence of racism in the post-civil rights era, modern and contemporary American literature, and the history and politics of the university, which has been informed by ten years of service as vice provost and provost. She is also a licensed psychotherapist, which has greatly influenced her recent work in psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and affect.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0742570509
• ISBN 13: 9780742570504
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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