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Book SynopsisTheory offered us a way of understanding the world that, like so many youthful exuberances, was both vital and ridiculous.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 feelsilly, stupid, sexy, seething and stuckStein 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. Avidly Reads is a series of short books about how culture makes us feel. Founded in 2012 by Sarah Blackwood and Sarah Mesle, Avidlyan online magazine supported by the Los Angeles Review of Booksspecializes in short-form critical essays devoted to thinking and feeling. Avidly Reads is an exciting new series featuring bo
Trade Review"Jordan Alexander Stein's
Theory, one of the excellent little books in the relatively new series
Avidly Reads, from New York University Press.
Avidly Reads has been a column in the
Los Angeles Review of Books for a while, and the popularity of it entirely justifies the book series." * Popmatters *
