Confronting Theory
Subtitle: The Psychology of Cultural Studies
Publisher: Intellect
Published: February 2010
Place of publication: Bristol, UK
Language: eng
Format: Softcover
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9781841503172
Copyright date: 2010
Description: First edition
Table of contents: label: Preface
pagenum: 7; label: Chapter One
title: Cultural Studies and Capital-T Theory
pagenum: 13; title: The Problem of 'Theory'; title: Cultural Studies and/as Psychology; title: Texts and Science; title: Theory's Challenge; label: Chapter Two
title: What is Theory About?
pagenum: 29; title: Immaterial Foundations; title: After the 'Sokal Hoax'; title: Theory is Not Metaphor; label: Chapter Three
title: Different Things
pagenum: 41; title: Language Problems; title: Reductionism and 'Essentialism'; title: Relations and Things; title: Becoming Theoretical; title: Real Differences: 'Race' and Identity; title: Making Sense of Difference; label: Chapter Four
title: Theory, People and 'Subjects'
pagenum: 57; title: Psychology and the Emergence of Cultural Studies; title: The 'Return to the Signifier'; title: Semiotic Subjects, or Persons?; title: Decentring Psychology; title: Equivocating: Anti-'Essentialism'; title: Subjects Need Biology; label: Chapter Five
title: 'Post-Human' Theory and Cultural Studies
pagenum: 71; title: The Printing Press, Digital Media and Humanism; title: Enlightenment Humanism; title: Escaping the Human?; title: The Psychology of Cultural Studies; title: Problems of Coherence; label: Chapter Six
title: Affecting Ontologies
pagenum: 87; title: Affect as an Entity; title: The Trinity: Feeling, Emotion, Affect; title: Becoming Ontological – The Student's Problem; title: Affect extraordinaire: Horse Sense?; label: Chapter Seven
title: Real experience, Un-real Science
pagenum: 105; title: Moving Science: The Body in Theory; title: Vital Phenomenology; title: Neo- or Non-Psychology?; title: Realism as an Ethical Attitude; label: Chapter Eight
title: Theory and Education
pagenum: 123; title: Realism as a Default Position; title: When Students 'do Theory'; title: Teaching Theory; title: Bluffing; title: 'Post-Humanities' and Education; title: No Laughing Matter; label: References
pagenum: 141; label: Index
pagenum: 145