Examining multiple academic discourses, Passive Nihilism argues that contemporary models of history, culture, and language are reactive and that their mix of epistemology, rhetoric, and politics is t
Within the field of philosophical criticism, Cohen (critical studies, California Institute of Arts) brings presuppositions to bear on the uses and abuses of history. His topics include the island of T
What does it mean to"do theory" in America? In what ways has "French Theory" changed American intellectual and artistic life? How different is it from what French intellectuals themselves conceived, a
