Adventures in Theory: A Compact Anthology

Adventures in Theory: A Compact Anthology
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Country
United States
Published
29 November 2018
Pages
320
ISBN
9781501336331

Adventures in Theory: A Compact Anthology

The purpose of art, according to the artist Banksy, is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. The purpose of that creative practice called theory is to disturb everyone-to perpetually unsettle all our staid assumptions, all our fixed understandings, all our familiar identities. An alternative to the typically large and unwieldy theory anthology, Adventures in Theory offers a manageably short collection of writings that have famously enacted the central purpose of theory.

Adventures in Theory takes readers on a steadily unsettling tour, spanning the most significant thought provocations in the history of theoretical writing from Marx and Nietzsche through Foucault and Derrida to Butler, Zizek, and Edelman. Engagingly lean and enjoyably mean, this is a minimalist anthology with maximal impact.

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