...Bruce R. Payne Copyright © 1905 by Duke University Press 1905 Ethical Theory as a Basis for Educational Theory and Practice By Bruce R. Payne, Professor in the Curry School of Education, University of Virginia As the title of this paper suggests, a hasty and somewhat disconnected review...

...Theodore Ropp The U. S. Marines and Amphibious War: Its Theory, and Practice in the Pacific . By Isely Jeter A. Crowl Philip A. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1951 . Pp. vii , 636 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 602 The South Atlantic...

...Thomas G. Wiener Soviet Literary Theory and Practice during the First Five-Year Plan, 1928-1932 . By Borland Harriet . New York : King’s Crown Press , 1950 . Pp. xi , 256 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 184 The South Atlantic Quarterly This is a worth...

...J. Hillis Miller Duke University Press 2007 J. Hillis Miller Performativity as Performance / ​ Performativity as Speech Act: ​ Derrida’s Special Theory of Performativity ​My hypotheses: (1) Performativity in the sense of the way a dance...

...Brett Levinson Duke University Press 2007 Brett Levinson ​Globalizing Paradigms, or, The Delayed State ​ ​of Latin American Theory ​Globalization, if a significant concept—and that is a key question of this essay—mourns...

...Neville Hoad Duke University Press 2007 Neville Hoad Queer Theory Addiction After Sex 1: A Cigarette After Sex?” My first response is a simple and personal one: “A cigarette.” There could...

...Jeff Nunokawa Duke University Press 2007 Jeff Nunokawa Queer Theory: Postmortem Of course what came to be called “queer the- ory” didn’t begin with ACT UP, but man did it get a major jolt there. Anyone around...

...Kenneth Surin The paper begins by examining the conditions that allowed theory to emerge and flourish in the American academy. It then proposes a typology for grouping together and analyzing the papers given at the March 2010 “Theory Now,” from which many of the essays in this issue originated...

...Michael Hardt Critique has become the primary mode of practicing theory today, at least theory conceived as a political intervention. Michel Foucault, in his final two years of lecture courses at the Collège de France, develops a critique of critique and proposes in its stead a militant form...

...Jonathan Culler The invitation to think about “theory now” requires a double response. Insofar as theory has a “now,” it is a “now” in the time of disciplines and institutions, a point in an institutional trajectory. To ask where theory is now invites us to describe where theory has been and where...

...Sharon P. Holland 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Sharon P. Holland The Last Word on Racism: New Directions for a Critical Race Theory Dismayingly, institutionalized racism and prejudice endure too, long after the abolition of slavery...

...George Ritzer Duke University Press 2006 George Ritzer Rooting for the ‘‘Devil Baseball, the Yankees, Shane Spencer (Who and Social Theory Born in New York City, specifically Manhat- tan, I was destined to be a fan of New York...

... – 42 . Badiou Alain . 2009 . Theory of the Subject . Translated by Bosteels Bruno . London : Continuum . Badiou Alain . 2012 . The Rebirth of History: Times of Riots and Uprisings . Translated by Elliott Gregory . London : Verso . Bosteels Bruno . 2011...

...Jeffrey T. Nealon Following Stuart Hall's provocation to understand theory as the “ process of theorizing , of the development and refinement of new concepts and explanations which, alone, is the sign of a living body of thought, capable still of engaging and grasping something of the truth about...

...Sergio Tischler This article establishes a field of dialogue regarding the idea of the revolutionary and rebel subject between the Zapatista movement (EZLN) and critical theory thinkers, particularly Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno. It highlights the notions of the antihegemonic subject...

...Ian Hunter Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Ian Hunter Literary Theory in Civil Life For those already interested in heading away from the discussions of aesthetics and politics or literature and ideology that have preoccu­ pied thinking about the social uses of literature...

...Lee Edelman Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Lee Edelman The Plague of Discourse: Politics, Literary Theory, and AIDS In an article titled The Metaphor of AIDS, published for a popular audience in the Sun­ day magazine of the Boston Globe, Lee Grove, an instructor of creative...

...Jane Feuer Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Jane Feuer Reading Dynasty: Television and Reception Theory By the time literary studies had rediscov­ ered the reader, the field of mass commu­ nication conceived as a form of empirical social science was just beginning to ad­ mit...

...Bill Nichols Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Bill Nichols Form Wars: The Political Unconscious of Formalist Theory N arrative s not the thing it used to be. More than standing as one form of artistic expres­ sion to be worried over by those attending to the nature of art...

...Rick Altman Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Rick Altman Dickens, Griffith, and Film Theory Today Thus Sergei Eisenstein opens his classic essay on Dickens, Griffith, and the Film Today : The kettle began it. . . . Thus Dickens opens his Cricket on the Hearth. The kettle...