Elegy for theory [elektronický zdroj] / D.N. Rodowick.
Typ materiálu: TextPublication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2014Popis: 1 online zdroj (298 pages)ISBN:- 9780674726086
Typ jednotky | Aktuální knihovna | Signatura | Stav | Půjčeno do | Čárový kód | |
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Kniha | Centrum dokumentárního filmu Cizojazyčné publikace E821 | E821/1159/ROD (Prohlédnout regál(Otevře se níže)) | Dostupné | E821/1159/ROD |
Procházení Centrum dokumentárního filmu regálů, Shelving location: Cizojazyčné publikace E821 Ukončit prohlížení regálu (Ukončí prohlížení regálu)
E821/1154/BEN Killer tapes and shattered screens video spectatorship from VHS to file sharing / | E821/1155/ELS Film theory : an introduction through the senses / | E821/1157/NEU Neuroscience and media : new understandings and representations / | E821/1159/ROD Elegy for theory | E821/1160/NAN Cognitive media theory / | E821/1161/BAR The archive effect found footage and the audiovisual experience of history / | E821/1162/PAR What is media archaeology? / |
Obsahuje rejstřík
Rhetorically charged debates over theory have divided scholars of the humanities for decades. In Elegy for Theory, D. N. Rodowick steps back from well-rehearsed arguments pro and con to assess why theory has become such a deeply contested concept. Far from lobbying for a return to the "high theory" of the 1970s and 1980s, he calls for a vigorous dialogue on what should constitute a new, ethically inflected philosophy of the humanities.
Rodowick develops an ambitiously cross-disciplinary critique of theory as an academic discourse, tracing its historical displacements from ancient concepts of theoria through late modern concepts of the aesthetic and into the twentieth century. The genealogy of theory, he argues, is constituted by two main lines of descent--one that goes back to philosophy and the other rooted instead in the history of positivism and the rise of the empirical sciences. Giving literature, philosophy, and aesthetics their due, Rodowick asserts that the mid-twentieth-century rise of theory within the academy cannot be understood apart from the emergence of cinema and visual studies. To ask the question, "What is cinema?" is to also open up in new ways the broader question of what is art.
At a moment when university curriculums are everywhere being driven by scientism and market forces, Elegy for Theory advances a rigorous argument for the importance of the arts and humanities as transformative, self-renewing cultural legacies.
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