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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464473203321

Autore

Rodowick David Norman

Titolo

Elegy for theory / / D.N. Rodowick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : Harvard University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-674-72701-0

0-674-72608-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Classificazione

AP 45100

Disciplina

791.4301

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- In Place of Beginning ... -- 1. A Compass in a Moving World -- 2. Many Lines of Descent -- 3. Theoria as Practical Philosophy -- 4. The Sage Is Wise Only in Theory -- 5. Variations and Discontinuities: Aesthetic -- 6. How Art Found Theory -- 7. Philosophy before the Arts -- 8. The Rarity of Theory -- 9. On the History of Film Theory -- 10. Genres of Theory -- 11. Excursus: Ricciotto Canudo and the Aesthetic Discourse -- 12. On the Way to Language -- 13. The Travels of Formalism -- 14. An Uncertain and Irrational Art -- 15. A Small History of Structuralism -- 16. After the Long Eclipse -- 17. An Object, a Method, a Domain -- 18. A Care for the Claims of Theory -- 19. The Sense of an Ending -- 20. "Suddenly, an Age of Theory" -- 21. The Fifth Element -- 22. "A Struggle without End, Exterior and Interior" -- 23. Becoming a Subject in Theory -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 1970's and 1980's, 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.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798308203321

Autore

Nilson Linda Burzotta

Titolo

Teaching at its best : a research-based resource for college instructors / / Linda B. Nilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, California : , : Jossey-Bass, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-119-10780-6

1-119-10779-2

Edizione

[Fourth edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (550 pages)

Collana

Jossey-bass higher and adult education series

Disciplina

378.1/7

Soggetti

College teaching

Effective teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.