LEADER 03725nam 2200565 450 001 996248335803316 005 20210607230540.0 010 $a0-674-72701-0 010 $a0-674-72608-1 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674726086 035 $a(CKB)3710000000081476 035 $a(EBL)3301374 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001082861 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11631526 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001082861 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11101385 035 $a(PQKB)10370866 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301374 035 $a(DE-B1597)213445 035 $a(OCoLC)867050098 035 $a(OCoLC)979778198 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674726086 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301374 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10823657 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000081476 100 $a20140118d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aElegy for theory /$fD.N. Rodowick 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts ;$aLondon, England :$cHarvard University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (304 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-674-04669-2 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIn Place of Beginning ... --$t1. A Compass in a Moving World --$t2. Many Lines of Descent --$t3. Theoria as Practical Philosophy --$t4. The Sage Is Wise Only in Theory --$t5. Variations and Discontinuities: Aesthetic --$t6. How Art Found Theory --$t7. Philosophy before the Arts --$t8. The Rarity of Theory --$t9. On the History of Film Theory --$t10. Genres of Theory --$t11. Excursus: Ricciotto Canudo and the Aesthetic Discourse --$t12. On the Way to Language --$t13. The Travels of Formalism --$t14. An Uncertain and Irrational Art --$t15. A Small History of Structuralism --$t16. After the Long Eclipse --$t17. An Object, a Method, a Domain --$t18. A Care for the Claims of Theory --$t19. The Sense of an Ending --$t20. "Suddenly, an Age of Theory" --$t21. The Fifth Element --$t22. "A Struggle without End, Exterior and Interior" --$t23. Becoming a Subject in Theory --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aRhetorically 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. 606 $aMotion pictures$xPhilosophy 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMotion pictures$xPhilosophy. 676 $a791.4301 686 $aAP 45100$2rvk 700 $aRodowick$b David Norman$0551236 801 0$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248335803316 996 $aElegy for theory$92353887 997 $aUNISA