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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
ISBN-10
0810137798
ISBN-13
9780810137790
eBay Product ID (ePID)
242783566
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Publication Name
Theory's Autoimmunity : Skepticism, Literature, and Philosophy
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Subject
Comparative Literature, General, Criticism, Modern / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Philosophy
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
16.4 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2017-056208
Reviews
"Marvelously lucid, joyful, and rigorous, Theory's Autoimmunity relaunches the impulse to theorize across a broad front, confronting the disastrous impulse to protectionist mastery, dislocating immunity from itself through subtle acts of reading. Zalloua's book should be essential reading for any course in theory. But beyond that, in its militant advocacy of theory's 'hysteria,' its skeptical voice, it is existentially and intellectually vital." --Patrick ffrench, author of After Bataille: Sacrifice, Exposure, Community "Zahi Zalloua's provocative, timely, and delightfully readable Theory's Autoimmunity argues that theory, far from a vestigial practice, is perhaps more necessary now than ever" --T. J. Martinson, symploke "In this trenchant and vigorously argued book, Zahi Zalloua mounts a defence of theory and gives a compelling account of its specificity in relation to knowledge discourses in general and those of the literary and critical humanities in particular." --Ian James, French Studies, "Theory's Autoimmunity intervenes brilliantly in the field of postcritical theory. By cutting a swath through ideology critiques, object-oriented ontologies, and subjectless realisms, Zalloua demonstrates that theory flourishes by being at odds with itself." --Jean-Michel Rabaté, author of Crimes of the Future: Theory and its Global Reproduction, "Marvelously lucid, joyful, and rigorous, Theory's Autoimmunity relaunches the impulse to theorize across a broad front, confronting the disastrous impulse to protectionist mastery, dislocating immunity from itself through subtle acts of reading. Zalloua's book should be essential reading for any course in theory. But beyond that, in its militant advocacy of theory's 'hysteria,' its skeptical voice, it is existentially and intellectually vital." --Patrick ffrench, author of After Bataille: Sacrifice, Exposure, Community, " Theory's Autoimmunity intervenes brilliantly in the field of postcritical theory. By cutting a swath through ideology critiques, object-oriented ontologies, and subjectless realisms, Zalloua demonstrates that theory flourishes by being at odds with itself." --Jean-Michel Rabaté, author of Crimes of the Future: Theory and its Global Reproduction
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
801.95
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction: Toward a Hermeneutics of Skepticism Chapter 1: Montaignian Meditations Chapter 2: Ideology, Critique, and the Event of Literature Chapter 3: Irony, Power, and the Death Drive Chapter 4: Queering Difference, or the Feminine Logic of the "Non-all" Chapter 5: Immunizing Ontology: The Speculative Turn Conclusion: Desire of the Theorist Works Cited Notes
Synopsis
Zahi Zalloua's Theory's Autoimmunity is a multidisciplinary work of philosophy and critical theory that argues for reclaiming theory's skepticism as a value., Engaging scholars from across humanistic fields grappling with the role and value of theory in our times, Theory's Autoimmunity argues for reclaiming theory's skepticism as a value. To cultivate theory's skeptical impulses is to embrace what Jacques Derrida has termed autoimmunity : a condition of openness to the outside--openness of the self, the community, democracy, or other ideals--that allows for change. Openness to change comes with risks, and the self-protective temptation to immunize oneself or one's community against these risks is strong. Yet without such risks, without openness to otherness, no encounter with the new, with difference, can ever take place. Without autoimmunity, theory becomes stagnant and programmatic, unable to receive and respond to the other or the event, to address, revise, and produce new meanings. Taking up the challenge of thinking theory as skepticism, with and against philosophy, this study turns to literature as an interlocutor, investigating the ways theory, like the literary works of Montaigne, Baudelaire, Stendhal, Morrison, or Duras, declines to put on the interpretive brakes, to stop reading at a point of understanding. Undoing and remaking itself, theory--those critical interpretive practices that revel in the creation and proliferation of meaning--becomes autoimmune., Engaging scholars from across humanistic fields grappling with the role and value of theory in our times, Theory's Autoimmunity argues for reclaiming theory's skepticism as a value. To cultivate theory's skeptical impulses is to embrace what Jacques Derrida has termed autoimmunity a condition of openness to the outside--openness of the self, the community, democracy, or other ideals--that allows for change. Openness to change comes with risks, and the self-protective temptation to immunize oneself or one's community against these risks is strong. Yet without such risks, without openness to otherness, no encounter with the new, with difference, can ever take place. Without autoimmunity, theory becomes stagnant and programmatic, unable to receive and respond to the other or the event, to address, revise, and produce new meanings. Taking up the challenge of thinking theory as skepticism, with and against philosophy, this study turns to literature as an interlocutor, investigating the ways theory, like the literary works of Montaigne, Baudelaire, Stendhal, Morrison, or Duras, declines to put on the interpretive brakes, to stop reading at a point of understanding. Undoing and remaking itself, theory--those critical interpretive practices that revel in the creation and proliferation of meaning--becomes autoimmune.
LC Classification Number
PN81.Z29 2018
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