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Theory in an Uneven World
This major intervention into debates about the postcolonial and the global proposes that theory should embody unevenness as symptom even as it envisions strategies to get beyond unevenness. Radhakrishnan's thought-provoking engagement with theorists and writers from around the world will fascinate readers across a wide range of disciplines.
A major intervention into debates about the postcolonial and the global.
Proposes that theory bear the burden of unevenness even as it seeks a way out of it - neither captive to the world as it is, nor naively credulous of visions of the world as it should be, theory argues for an ethics of persuasion that is firmly rooted in political resistance.
Engages with a wide range of theorists and writers from around the world.
Ranges over fields as diverse as critical theory, postmodernism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, minority studies, cultural studies and anthropology.
A major intervention into debates about the postcolonial and the global.
Proposes that theory bear the burden of unevenness even as it seeks a way out of it - neither captive to the world as it is, nor naively credulous of visions of the world as it should be, theory argues for an ethics of persuasion that is firmly rooted in political resistance.
Engages with a wide range of theorists and writers from around the world.
Ranges over fields as diverse as critical theory, postmodernism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, minority studies, cultural studies and anthropology.
240 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 18, 2003
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May 12, 2007
I really like this one. It proposes a theory for a theory-resistant world.
The more I read theory the more I realize that theorists must generalize and by virtue of that generalization be problematic, dangerous and emblematic of those on the verge of the shift. That is to say that a theorist must take into account the fact that his/her theory will not be applicable to each case presented to it.
This text takes this for granted and tells us a priori that the theory need be in dialogue with the world around it.
you know, or something like that.
The more I read theory the more I realize that theorists must generalize and by virtue of that generalization be problematic, dangerous and emblematic of those on the verge of the shift. That is to say that a theorist must take into account the fact that his/her theory will not be applicable to each case presented to it.
This text takes this for granted and tells us a priori that the theory need be in dialogue with the world around it.
you know, or something like that.
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