Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Bell, Philip

Title Confronting theory : the psychology of cultural studies / Philip Bell
Published Bristol, UK ; Chicago : Intellect, 2010

Copies

Description 1 online resource (147 pages)
Contents Cover -- Preliminary Pages -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Cultural Studies and Capital-T Theory -- Chapter 2: What is Theory About? -- Chapter 3: Different Things -- Chapter 4: Theory, People and 'Subjects' -- Chapter 5: 'Post-Human' Theory and Cultural Studies -- Chapter 6: Affecting Ontologies -- Chapter 7: Real experience, Un-real Science -- References -- Index -- Back Cover
Summary Confronting Theory presents a methodological (philosophical) and educational evaluation and critique of what has come to be known as Theory ('with a capital-T') in cross-disciplinary humanities education. Rather than merely dismissing Theory writing as risibly pretentious and abstract, Confronting Theory examines its principal concepts from the perspective of academic psychology and shows that, although 'Theory that only dogs can hear' may sound like revolutionary psychological analysis it is frequently incoherent and/or has few, if any, empirical implications that students can evaluate
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-144) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Culture -- Study and teaching -- Psychological aspects
Popular culture -- Study and teaching -- Psychological aspects
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781841503813
1841503819
9781841503172
1841503177
128277932X
9781282779327