{"product_id":"confronting-theory-the-psychology-of-cultural-studies-9781841503172","title":"Confronting Theory: The Psychology of Cultural","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eConfronting Theory\u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eConfronting Theory \u003c\/em\u003eexamines 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter One:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Cultural Studies and Capital-T Theory The Problem of ‘Theory’ Cultural Studies and\/as Psychology Texts and Science  Theory's Challenge    \u003cstrong\u003eChapter Two:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What is Theory About? Immaterial Foundations After the ‘Sokal Hoax’ Theory is Not Metaphor \u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eChapter Three:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Different Things Language Problems Reductionism and ‘Essentialism’ Relations and Things Becoming Theoretical Real Differences: ‘Race’ and Identity Making Sense of Difference \u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eChapter Four:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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   \u003cstrong\u003eChapter Five:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Post-Human’ Theory and Cultural Studies The Printing Press, Digital Media and Humanism Enlightenment Humanism Escaping the Human? Problems of Coherence   \u003cstrong\u003eChapter Six:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Affecting Ontologies Affect as an Entity The Trinity: Feeling, Emotion, Affect Becoming Ontological – The Student’s Problem Affect extraordinaire: Horse Sense?   \u003cstrong\u003eChapter Seven:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Real experience, Un-real Science Moving Science: The Body in Theory Vital Phenomenology Neo- or Non-Psychology? Realism as an Ethical Attitude \u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eChapter Eight:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Theory and Education Realism as a Default Position When Students ‘do Theory’ Teaching Theory Bluffing  ‘Post-Humanities’ and Education No Laughing Matter","brand":"Intellect Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042922201431,"sku":"9781841503172","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781841503172.jpg?v=1750956236","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/confronting-theory-the-psychology-of-cultural-studies-9781841503172","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}