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Future Theory

A Handbook to Critical Concepts

Patricia Waugh editor Marc Botha editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:20th Apr '23

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Critical Transitions gathers contributions from an international team of leading academics on understanding change and transition in contemporary culture.

Critical Transitions interrogates the terms and concepts most central to the urgent task of examining cultural change as a process of dynamic transition. This volume approaches the question of transition from multiple perspectives, demonstrating how the highly politicized spheres of cultural production, scientific invention and intellectual discourse are entangled in the contemporary world. Organized into five clusters of concepts - change, boundaries, ruptures, assemblages, horizons - by leading and emerging thinkers in the arts, humanities and social sciences, and spanning fields including geography, literary studies, cultural theory, philosophy, and politics.

Future Theory is not just a handbook explaining current critical concepts but a series of wide-ranging explorations, by an impressive international group of thinkers, of concepts that are likely to be critical for the future of theory, such as risk, catastrophe, climate, threshold, and, fortunately, hope. * Jonathan Culler, Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Cornell University, USA *

ISBN: 9781472567345

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480 pages