Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Theory in the "Post" Era: A Vocabulary for the 21st-Century Conceptual Commons

Christian Moraru

5/5 ( ratings)

Theory in the "Post" Era brings together the work and perspectives of a group of Romanian theorists who discuss the morphings of contemporary theory in what the editors call the “post” era. Since the Cold War's end and especially in the third millennium, theorists have been exploring the aftermath - and sometimes just the “after” - of whole paradigms, the crisis or “passing” of anthropocentrism, the twilight of an entire ontological and cultural “condition,” as well as the corresponding rise of an antagonist model, of an “anti,” “meta,” or “neo” alternative, with examples ranging from “posthumanism” and “post-postmodernism” to “post-aesthetics,” “postanalog” interpretation or “digicriticism,” “post-presentism,” “post-memory,” “post-“ or “neo-critique,” and so forth.

It is no coincidence, the contributors to this volume argue, that this “post” moment is also a time when theory is practiced as a world genre. If theory has always been a “worlded” enterprise, a quintessentially communal, cross-cultural and international project, this is truer at present than ever. Perhaps more than other humanist constituencies, today's theorists work and belong in a theory commons that is transnational if still uneven economically, politically, and otherwise. Theory in the "Post" Era reports the results of Romanian theory experiments that join efforts made in other places to foster a theory for the “post” age.

Pages: 376

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Release: September 23, 2021

ISBN: 1501358952

ISBN 13: 9781501358951

Theory in the "Post" Era: A Vocabulary for the 21st-Century Conceptual Commons

Christian Moraru

5/5 ( ratings)

Theory in the "Post" Era brings together the work and perspectives of a group of Romanian theorists who discuss the morphings of contemporary theory in what the editors call the “post” era. Since the Cold War's end and especially in the third millennium, theorists have been exploring the aftermath - and sometimes just the “after” - of whole paradigms, the crisis or “passing” of anthropocentrism, the twilight of an entire ontological and cultural “condition,” as well as the corresponding rise of an antagonist model, of an “anti,” “meta,” or “neo” alternative, with examples ranging from “posthumanism” and “post-postmodernism” to “post-aesthetics,” “postanalog” interpretation or “digicriticism,” “post-presentism,” “post-memory,” “post-“ or “neo-critique,” and so forth.

It is no coincidence, the contributors to this volume argue, that this “post” moment is also a time when theory is practiced as a world genre. If theory has always been a “worlded” enterprise, a quintessentially communal, cross-cultural and international project, this is truer at present than ever. Perhaps more than other humanist constituencies, today's theorists work and belong in a theory commons that is transnational if still uneven economically, politically, and otherwise. Theory in the "Post" Era reports the results of Romanian theory experiments that join efforts made in other places to foster a theory for the “post” age.

Pages: 376

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Release: September 23, 2021

ISBN: 1501358952

ISBN 13: 9781501358951

More books from Christian Moraru

Cosmodernism: American Narrative, Late Globalization, and the New Cultural Imaginary

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Romanian Literature as World Literature

Rewriting: Postmodern Narrative and Cultural Critique in the Age of Cloning

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Francophone Literature as World Literature

Memorious Discourse: Reprise and Representation in Postmodernism

The Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory

Reading for the Planet: Toward a Geomethodology

The Planetary Turn: Relationality and Geoaesthetics in the Twenty-First Century

Postcommunism, Postmodernism, and the Global Imagination

Flat Aesthetics: Twenty-First-Century American Fiction and the Making of the Contemporary

Reading for the Planet: Toward a Geomethodology

Rate this book!

Write a review?