- In Place of Beginning…
- 1. A Compass in a Moving World
- 2. Many Lines of Descent
- 3. Theoria as Practical Philosophy
- 4. The Sage Is Wise Only in Theory
- 5. Variations and Discontinuities: Aesthetic
- 6. How Art Found Theory
- 7. Philosophy before the Arts
- 8. The Rarity of Theory
- 9. On the History of Film Theory
- 10. Genres of Theory
- 11. Excursus: Ricciotto Canudo and the Aesthetic Discourse
- 12. On the Way to Language
- 13. The Travels of Formalism
- 14. An Uncertain and Irrational Art
- 15. A Small History of Structuralism
- 16. After the Long Eclipse
- 17. An Object, a Method, a Domain
- 18. A Care for the Claims of Theory
- 19. The Sense of an Ending
- 20. “Suddenly, an Age of Theory”
- 21. The Fifth Element
- 22. “A Struggle without End, Exterior and Interior”
- 23. Becoming a Subject in Theory
- Acknowledgments
- Index
Elegy for Theory
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$39.95 • £29.95 • €35.95
ISBN 9780674726086
Publication: January 2014
