Adventures in Theory

A Compact Anthology

Professor Calvin Thomas (Georgia State University, USA)

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English

Bloomsbury Academic USA
29 November 2018

Anthologies (non-poetry); Literary theory; History of Western philosophy; Popular philosophy

The purpose of art, according to the artist Banksy, is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. The purpose of that creative practice called “theory” is to disturb everyone—to perpetually unsettle all our staid assumptions, all our fixed understandings, all our familiar identities. An alternative to the typically large and unwieldy theory anthology, Adventures in Theory offers a manageably short collection of writings that have famously enacted the central purpose of theory.

Adventures in Theory takes readers on a steadily unsettling tour, spanning the most significant thought provocations in the history of theoretical writing from Marx and Nietzsche through Foucault and Derrida to Butler, Zizek, and Edelman. Engagingly lean and enjoyably mean, this is a minimalist anthology with maximal impact.

Edited by: Professor Calvin Thomas (Georgia State University USA)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm,
Weight: 517g
ISBN: 9781501336331
ISBN 10: 1501336339
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 29 November 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Calvin Thomas is Professor of English at Georgia State University, USA. He is the author of Ten Lessons in Theory (Bloomsbury, 2013), Masculinity, Psychoanalysis, Straight Queer Theory (2008), and Male Matters (1996). He is the editor of Straight with a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality (2000).

Reviews for Adventures in Theory: A Compact Anthology

Noticing that Theory has been diluted, mixed up in concoctions of old sours and rinds, Calvin Thomas has decided to refresh it, turning it into an adventure of insight that is also a restorative delight with strong but balanced recipes for a 21st-century intellectual Bloody Mary. * Jean-Michel Rabate, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania, and Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, USA *