This book proposes the necessity of a new critical attitude appropriate to a post-enlightenment social and political condition. Theory - the intellectual and his or her knowledge - has been institutionalised and tamed; the critic interested in praxis must find a new means of establishing an effective intellection. After Theory argues the demand for a post-theoretical or ana-theoretical attitude which will recondition and regenerate critique under the aegis of a philosophical and austere postmarxism. The 'waking' of theory advanced here ranges eclectically over twentieth-century practice in philosophy, literature, painting, music, dance, architecture, film and photography, breaking theory from its institutionalised bonds.
- ISBN10 0748608400
- ISBN13 9780748608409
- Publish Date 4 December 1996 (first published April 1990)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Edinburgh University Press
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 256
- Language English
- URL http://columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/074860/0748608400.HTM