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"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."-- No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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I was really getting into theory at about the same time as he was, so I saw some of what he describes when he reflects back. I am probably a slightly different case since by the time I started my undergraduate, well, the one that led to my humanities degrees, I was 31 and had real life experiences to tie to the theories. So everyone from Kant and Heidegger through Foucault, Butler, and Deleuze spoke to me both abstractly and concretely. In other words, I was grounded and saw (and still see) these theories as tools for change and understanding, not simply ego fodder like him.
I hope, when I used theory in teaching, I managed to instill something beyond just thinking for thinking sake. I value thinking for thinking sake but if that is all it is, then it is empty. I don't know, nor based on this book do I care, whether he ever actually outgrew his inflated thinking. I didn't see evidence of it here, no matter what he says. But that is a dynamic between a reader and a writer. What might be one reader's reliable writer is another's very unreliable writer. And I think I made my position known.
I would still recommend this to those interested in theory simply as a cautionary tale of how you look when you get an overblown sense of self-importance. And some of the anecdotes were humorous, though most only showed him, again, trying too hard to be what he isn't, engaging.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via Edelweiss. ( )