{"product_id":"9781501336331","title":"Adventures in Theory : A Compact Anthology","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAdventures in Theory\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe purpose of art, according to the artist Banksy, is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. The purpose of that creative practice called “theory” is to disturb everyone-to perpetually unsettle all our staid assumptions, all our fixed understandings, all our familiar identities. An alternative to the typically large and unwieldy theory anthology, \u003ci\u003eAdventures in Theory\u003c\/i\u003e offers a manageably short collection of writings that have famously enacted the central purpose of theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdventures in Theory\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers on a steadily unsettling tour, spanning the most significant thought provocations in the history of theoretical writing from Marx and Nietzsche through Foucault and Derrida to Butler, Zizek, and Edelman. Engagingly lean and enjoyably mean, this is a minimalist anthology with maximal impact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Noticing that Theory has been diluted, mixed up in concoctions of old sours and rinds, Calvin Thomas has decided to refresh it, turning it into an adventure of insight that is also a restorative delight with strong but balanced recipes for a 21st-century intellectual Bloody Mary.” —\u003ci\u003eJean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania, and Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAdventures in Theory\u003c\/i\u003e is a gift - a real gem - to everyone teaching undergraduate survey courses in literary and critical theory: it's concise enough to be manageable yet so brilliantly curated that it contains everything one needs. It's the anthology that many of us have been hoping would one day materialize. It's also a perfect companion to Thomas's delightful\u003ci\u003e Ten Lessons in Theory\u003c\/i\u003e.” —\u003ci\u003eMari Ruti, Distinguished Professor of Critical Theory and of Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Toronto, and author of Distillations (2018)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781501336331\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40678571966670,"sku":"9781501336331","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_791aa4ed-37af-4e4e-9e81-af8ede2c5e27.jpg?v=1640057328","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781501336331","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}