The Birth of Theory by Andrew Cole
Neither Marx nor Nietzsche first gave us theory - Hegel did. To support this contention, the author presents a fresh account of the origins and legacy of Hegel's dialectic as theory. He explains how Hegel boldly broke from modern philosophy when he adopted medieval dialectical habits of thought to fashion his own dialectic.
"Cole mobilizes the force and joy of his philosophical intelligence-as only a theoretically inflected medievalist could-in the direction of the most persuasive account we now have of theory's originsBrilliantly argued and beautifully written, this book shows us not only how theory was born but why it is still very much alive and, in Cole's hands, why it has such a compelling future." (Eduardo Cadava, coauthor of The Itinerant Languages of Photography)"
Andrew Cole teaches in the Department of English at Princeton University. He is the author of Literature and Heresy in the Age of Chaucer and coeditor of The Legitimacy of the Middle Ages: On the Unwritten History of Theory. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey, and Athens, Georgia.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780226135427 |
| ISBN 10 | 022613542X |
| Title | The Birth of Theory |
| Author | Andrew Cole |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 2014-06-15 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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