After Poststructuralism
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780203569221
Subjects: Structuralism (Literary analysis)
Description: This is a brilliantly argued account of the past and present fortunes of theory. It also maps out a way forward for the humanities in which theory will play a crucial part.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Impostures of French theory; Enlightenment/poststructuralism; After knowledge: Lyotard and the postmodern condition; After ethics: Levinas without stories; After hope: Althusser on reading and self-reading; After identity: Kristeva's life stories; Spectres of theory; Notes; Bibliography; Index.