Theory Toolbox Critical Concepts for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Name: Theory Toolbox Critical Concepts for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
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ISBN: 9780742570504

ISBN-10: 0742570509

ISBN-13: 9780742570504

Edition: 2nd 2011 (Revised)

Authors: Jeffrey Nealon, Susan Searls Giroux

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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 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. Updated throughout, the second edition of The Theory Toolbox includes a discussion of new…

Book details

List price: $47.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/20/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 5.49" wide x 8.65" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Why Theory?



Author/ity



Reading



Subjectivity



Culture


Multiculturalism


Popular Culture


Media Culture


Media Culture 2.0



Ideology



History



Space/Time



Posts


Postmodernism


Poststructuralism


Postcolonialism



Differences


Gender


Queer


Race


Class


Concluding Differences



Life


Biopower


Resistance


The Economics of Culture; or, The Biopower Business



Nature


Animals



Agency


Credits


Index


About the Authors