TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stein,Jordan Alexander
TI  - Avidly Reads Theory
SN  - 9781479827398
AV  - B842 
U1  - 140 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Culture
KW  - Theory (Philosophy)
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Affect
KW  - Anger
KW  - Catharine MacKinnon
KW  - Continental philosophy
KW  - Critical theory
KW  - Debate
KW  - Fantasy
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Gender and sexuality
KW  - Immanuel Kant
KW  - Jacques Lacan
KW  - Jokes
KW  - Julia Kristeva
KW  - Lipstick
KW  - Literary theory
KW  - Marxism
KW  - Memes
KW  - Michel Foucault
KW  - Postgraduate education
KW  - Queer
KW  - Sexuality
KW  - Stuckness
KW  - Stupidity
KW  - Theodor W Adorno
KW  - gift books
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Avidly Reads is a series of short books about how culture makes us feel. Founded in 2012 by Sarah Blackwood and Sarah Mesle, Avidly-an online magazine supported by the Los Angeles Review of Books-specializes in short-form critical essays devoted to thinking and feeling. Avidly Reads is an exciting new series featuring books that are part memoir, part cultural criticism, each bringing to life the author's emotional relationship to a cultural artifact or experience. Avidly Reads invites us to explore the surprising pleasures and obstacles of everyday life. This is a story about the emotional lives of ideas. As an avowed "theory head," Jordan Alexander Stein confronts a contradiction: that the abstract, and often frustrating rigors of theory also produced a sense of pride and identity for him and his friends: an idea of how to be and a way to live. Although Stein explains what theory is, this is not an introduction or a how-to. Organized around five ways that theory makes us feel-silly, stupid, sexy, seething and stuck-Stein travels back to the late nineties to tell a story of coming of age at a particular moment and to measure how that moment lives on now
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479858118
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479858118/original
ER  -