Philip Bell 
Confronting Theory [EPUB ebook] 
The Psychology of Cultural Studies

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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.

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Chapter One:

Cultural Studies and Capital-T Theory

The Problem of ‘Theory’

Cultural Studies and/as Psychology

Texts and Science 

Theory’s Challenge 

 

Chapter Two:

What is Theory About?

Immaterial Foundations

After the ‘Sokal Hoax’

Theory is Not Metaphor

 

Chapter Three:

Different Things

Language Problems

Reductionism and ‘Essentialism’

Relations and Things

Becoming Theoretical

Real Differences: ‘Race’ and Identity

Making Sense of Difference

 

Chapter Four:

Theory, People and ‘Subjects’

Psychology and the Emergence of Cultural Studies

The ‘Return to the Signifier’

Semiotic Subjects, or Persons?

Decentring Psychology

Equivocating: Anti-‘Essentialism’

Subjects Need Biology

 

Chapter Five:

‘Post-Human’ Theory and Cultural Studies

The Printing Press, Digital Media and Humanism

Enlightenment Humanism

Escaping the Human?

Problems of Coherence

 

Chapter Six:

Affecting Ontologies

Affect as an Entity

The Trinity: Feeling, Emotion, Affect

Becoming Ontological – The Student’s Problem

Affect extraordinaire: Horse Sense?

 

Chapter Seven:

Real experience, Un-real Science

Moving Science: The Body in Theory

Vital Phenomenology

Neo- or Non-Psychology?

Realism as an Ethical Attitude

 

Chapter Eight:

Theory and Education

Realism as a Default Position

When Students ‘do Theory’

Teaching Theory

Bluffing 

‘Post-Humanities’ and Education

No Laughing Matter

Despre autor

Philip Bell has published several books on television and media culture and more than sixty research monographs, journal articles, and book chapters on the representation of social issues in the media, globalization, and genres of film and television.

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