Do I hate theory?

Richard Bradford

pp. 163-185

in: Richard Bradford (ed), Teaching theory, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

Abstract

The title of this chapter is potentially misleading because the "I" is not necessarily its author. It would be better to treat this particular first person pronoun as a device, a conceit devised by myself — that is, the real myself — as an exercise in teaching Theory to undergraduates. More precisely, it is a polemic designed to provoke undergraduates into taking positions for or against aspects of Theory.