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N. Pireddu (Ed.), Reframing Critical, Literary, and Cultural Theories. Thought on the Edge

N. Pireddu (Ed.), Reframing Critical, Literary, and Cultural Theories. Thought on the Edge

Publié le par Alexandre Gefen (Source : Nicoletta Pireddu)

Pireddu, Nicoletta (Ed.), Reframing Critical, Literary, and Cultural Theories. Thought on the Edge, 

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

ISBN 978-3-319-89990-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-89990-9


Addresses a broad variety of issues, from questions of space, the “human” and political action, to post secularism, methodological intersections between scientific and critical theory, post colonialism and cosmopolitanism, and new philosophical categories for theoretical reflection and literary analysis, among many others Offers transcultural perspectives to examine theoretical concepts in a fashion informed by multiple intersecting voices that transcend the predominant US academic approach to theory Deliberately leaves room for negotiation via a “probing” approach.

This book participates in the ongoing debate about the alleged “death of theory” and the current post-theoretical condition, arguing that the “finitude” of theoretical projects does not mean “end”, but rather contingency and transformation of thinking, beyond irreconcilable doctrines. Contributors from different cultural and scholarly backgrounds and based in three different continents propose new areas of investigation and interpretive possibilities, reopening dialogues with past and present discourses from a plurality of perspectives and locations. After a first section that reassesses the status and scopes of critique, theory, and literature, the book foregrounds new or neglected critical vocabulary, literary paradigms, and narrative patterns to reread texts at the intersection with other branches of the humanities—history, philosophy, religion, and pedagogy. It then explores geopolitical, cultural, and epistemological domains that have been historically and ideologically overdetermined (such as postsocialist, postcolonial, and cosmopolitan spaces), recodifying them as unstable sites of both conflicts and convergences. By acknowledging the spatio-temporal and cultural delimitations of any intellectual practice, the book creates awareness of our own partiality and incompleteness, but treats boundaries as zones of contact, exchange, and conceptual mobility that promote crossings and connections.