Post-theory, Culture, Criticism

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Ivan Callus, Stefan Herbrechter
Rodopi, 2004 - 298 páginas
From the contents: Transforming theory: cultural studies and the public humanities (Donald Morton). - Appropriate nineteenth-century texts?: questions concerning the popular culture of theory (Andrew Cooper). - The fate of culture (Thomas Docherty). - Rights in the margins: an eccentric view of culture (Rainer Emig). - The joy of things (Scott Wilson). - Science as post-theory?: discourses of evolution in Christine Brooke-Rose's 'Subscript' (Stefania Cassar). - Reading Derrida post-theoretically (Ivan Callus).

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INTRODUCTION
7
Cultural Studies and the Public Humanities
25
Appropriate NineteenthCentury Texts?
49
The Fate of Culture
75
An Eccentric View of Culture
93
Fog Over Channel Continent Isolated
113
Toying with the Postmodern To Infinity and Beyond
141
The Joy of Things
167
Science as PostTheory?
189
Culture Litterature Information
215
Reading Derrida PostTheoretically
251
Ivan Callus and Stefan Herbrechter
283
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Página 149 - The future can only be anticipated in the form of an absolute danger. It is that which breaks absolutely with constituted normality and can only be proclaimed, presented, as a sort of monstrosity.
Página 88 - Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it; and here, too, it coincides with religion.
Página 76 - To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables; so that they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand; lest they should turn again, and be forgiven.
Página 69 - High against the black sky the flash of a lamp would show crocketed pinnacles and indented battlements. Down obscure alleys, apparently never trodden now by the foot of man, and whose very existence seemed to be forgotten, there would jut into the path porticoes, oriels, doorways of enriched and florid middle-age design, their extinct air being accentuated by the rottenness of the stones.
Página 103 - There was in him a vital scorn of all : As if the worst had fall'n which could befall, He stood a stranger in this breathing world, An erring spirit from another hurl'd...
Página 103 - This makes the madmen who have made men mad By their contagion; Conquerors and Kings, Founders of sects and systems, to whom add Sophists, Bards, Statesmen, all unquiet things Which stir too strongly the soul's secret springs, And are themselves the fools to those they fool; Envied, yet how unenviable!
Página 87 - The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.
Página 146 - generations" flash by at an astonishing rate. A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Thus understood, postmodernism is not modernism at its end, but in a nascent state, and this state is recurrent.

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