Theory Does Not Exist Comparative Ancient and Modern Explorations in Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, and Rhetoric
A wide-ranging collection of essays that makes the case for the humanities as central to our self-understanding, for theory as the latest incarnation of a perennial concern with the relation between words and things, and for the ancient as constitutive of the modern.
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La Vergne
Anthem Press
2024
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| Edition: | 1 |
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| ISBN: | 9781839990854, 1839990856 |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover -- Front Matter -- Praise -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Theory Does Not Exist: An Introduction -- Chapter 1 Debits and Credits or Accounting for My Life: A Defense of Reading and Humanistic Education -- Chapter 2 The Trouble with Theory: A Comparatist Manifesto -- Chapter 3 Placing the Self in the Field of Truth: Irony and Self-Fashioning in Ancient and Postmodern Rhetorical Theory -- Chapter 4 Rhetoric and Deconstruction: Plato, the Sophists, and Philosophy -- Chapter 5 The Platonic Remainder: Derrida's Khôra and the Corpus Platonicum -- Chapter 6 Cicero Reads Derrida Reading Cicero: A Politics and a Friendship to Come -- Chapter 7 On Borders, Race, and Infinite Hospitality: Foucault, Derrida, and Camus -- Chapter 8 Sartre, Politics, and Psychoanalysis: It Don't Mean a Thing If It Aint Got Das Ding -- Chapter 9 Enjoyment beyond the Pleasure Principle: Antigone, Julian of Norwich, and the Use of Pleasures -- Chapter 10 Lacan le con: Luce Tells Jacques Off -- Chapter 11 The Repeatable and the Unrepeatable: Žižek and the Future of the Humanities, or Assessing Socrates -- Chapter 12 Theory Does Not Exist -- Back Matter -- Index