Confronting Theory

The Psychology of Cultural Studies

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

Confronting Theory presents a methodological (philosophical) and educational evaluation and critique of what has come to be known as Theory (‘with a capital-T’) in cross-disciplinary humanities education. Rather than merely dismissing Theory writing as risibly pretentious and abstract, Confronting Theory examines its principal concepts from the perspective of academic psychology and shows that, although ‘Theory that only dogs can hear’ may sound like revolutionary psychological analysis it is frequently incoherent and/or has few, if any, empirical implications that students can evaluate.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-05-15
Mått:178 x 229 x 8 mm
Vikt:254 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:147
Förlag:Intellect
ISBN:9781841503172

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Philip Bell has published several books on television and media culture and more than sixty research monographs, journal articles and book chapters on the representation of social issues in the media, globalization and genres of film and television.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter One:Cultural Studies and Capital-T TheoryThe Problem of ‘Theory’Cultural Studies and/as PsychologyTexts and Science Theory's Challenge Chapter Two:What is Theory About?Immaterial FoundationsAfter the ‘Sokal Hoax’Theory is Not Metaphor Chapter Three:Different ThingsLanguage ProblemsReductionism and ‘Essentialism’Relations and ThingsBecoming TheoreticalReal Differences: ‘Race’ and IdentityMaking Sense of Difference Chapter Four:Theory, People and ‘Subjects’Psychology and the Emergence of Cultural StudiesThe ‘Return to the Signifier’Semiotic Subjects, or Persons?Decentring PsychologyEquivocating: Anti-‘Essentialism’Subjects Need Biology Chapter Five:‘Post-Human’ Theory and Cultural StudiesThe Printing Press, Digital Media and HumanismEnlightenment HumanismEscaping the Human?Problems of Coherence Chapter Six:Affecting OntologiesAffect as an EntityThe Trinity: Feeling, Emotion, AffectBecoming Ontological – The Student’s ProblemAffect extraordinaire: Horse Sense? Chapter Seven:Real experience, Un-real ScienceMoving Science: The Body in TheoryVital PhenomenologyNeo- or Non-Psychology?Realism as an Ethical Attitude Chapter Eight:Theory and EducationRealism as a Default PositionWhen Students ‘do Theory’Teaching TheoryBluffing ‘Post-Humanities’ and EducationNo Laughing Matter

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