Confronting Theory: The Psychology of Cultural Studies

Confronting Theory presents a methodological (philosophical) and educational critique of what has come to be known as Theory ('with a capital-T') in cross-disciplinary humanities. 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' claims to offer revolutionary psychological analysis it is frequently incoherent a…