The Theory Toolbox : Critical Concepts for the New Humanities

Nealon, Jeffrey, Giroux, Susan Searls

ISBN 10: 0742519945 / ISBN 13: 9780742519947

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Theory Toolbox : Critical Concepts for the New Humanities
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0742519945
• ISBN 13: 9780742519947
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: Edition Unstated.
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

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 rather than positioning them to respond to theory as a reified history of various schools of thought. Clear and engaging, it avoids facile description, inviting students to struggle with ideas and the world by virtue of the book's relentless challenge to common assumptions and its appeal to common sense.

About the Author

Jeffrey T. Nealon teaches in the English department at Penn State University. He is author of several 'theory' books: Double Reading: Postmodernism after Deconstruction(1993), Alterity Politics: Ethics and Performative Subjectivity(1998), and the co-edited collection Rethinking the Frankfurt School: Alternative Legacies of Cultural Critique (2002). Susan Searls Giroux has a joint appointment in the English department and the College of Education at Penn State University. She is co-author, with Henry A. Giroux, of Selling Out Higher Education: Race, Youth, and the Crisis of Politics (2004) and co-editor of the Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies.