The theory toolbox : critical concepts for the humanities, arts, and social sciences
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The theory toolbox : critical concepts for the humanities, arts, and social sciences
（Culture and politics series）
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c2012
2nd ed
- : hardback
- : pbk
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The theory toolbox : critical concepts for the humanities, arts, & social sciences
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description and Table of Contents
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: hardback ISBN 9780742570498
Description
This text involves students in understanding and using the "tools" of critical social and literary theory from the first day of class. It is an ideal first introduction before students encounter more difficult readings from critical and postmodern perspectives. Nealon and Searls Giroux describe key concepts and illuminate each with an engaging inquiry that asks students to consider deeper and deeper questions. Written in students' own idiom, and drawing its examples from the social world, literature, popular culture, and advertising, The Theory Toolbox offers students the language and opportunity to theorize rather than positioning them to respond to theory as a reified history of various schools of thought. Clear and engaging, it avoids facile description, inviting students to struggle with ideas and the world by virtue of the book's relentless challenge to common assumptions and its appeal to common sense. Updated throughout, the second edition of The Theory Toolbox includes a discussion of new media, as well as two new chapters on life and nature.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Why Theory? Chapter 2: Author/ity Chapter 3: Reading Chapter 4: Subjectivity Chapter 5: Culture Multiculturalism Popular Culture Media Culture Media Culture 2.0 Chapter 6: Ideology Chapter 7: History Chapter 8: Space/Time Chapter 9: Posts Postmodernism Postculturalism Postcolonialism Chapter 10: Differences Gender Queer Race Class Concluding Differences Chapter 11: Life Biopower Resistance The Economics of Culture
- or, the Biopower Business Chapter 12: Nature Animality Chapter 13: Agency Credits Index About the Authors
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780742570504
Description
This text involves students in understanding and using the "tools" of critical social and literary theory from the first day of class. It is an ideal first introduction before students encounter more difficult readings from critical and postmodern perspectives.
Nealon and Searls Giroux describe key concepts and illuminate each with an engaging inquiry that asks students to consider deeper and deeper questions. Written in students' own idiom, and drawing its examples from the social world, literature, popular culture, and advertising, The Theory Toolbox offers students the language and opportunity to theorize rather than positioning them to respond to theory as a reified history of various schools of thought. Clear and engaging, it avoids facile description, inviting students to struggle with ideas and the world by virtue of the book's relentless challenge to common assumptions and its appeal to common sense.
Updated throughout, the second edition of The Theory Toolbox includes a discussion of new media, as well as two new chapters on life and nature.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Why Theory? Chapter 2: Author/ity Chapter 3: Reading Chapter 4: Subjectivity Chapter 5: Culture Multiculturalism Popular Culture Media Culture Media Culture 2.0 Chapter 6: Ideology Chapter 7: History Chapter 8: Space/Time Chapter 9: Posts Postmodernism Postculturalism Postcolonialism Chapter 10: Differences Gender Queer Race Class Concluding Differences Chapter 11: Life Biopower Resistance The Economics of Culture
- or, the Biopower Business Chapter 12: Nature Animality Chapter 13: Agency Credits Index About the Authors
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