Description:
A wide-ranging collection of essays that makes the case for the humanities as central to our self-understanding, for theory as the latest incarnation of a perennial concern with the relation between words and things, and for the ancient as constitutive of the modern.
Review Quotes:
'Theory Does Not Exist proves that, in ancient and modern worlds, the rhetoric of theory is ever-present. Rather than treating theory as an object or tool of recent or long-standing influence, this illuminating book analyzes and thinks through theory's shaping, lively power. As such, Paul Allen Miller clarifies how the interpretive practices of the humanities pervades psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and rhetorical studies. Theory Does Not Exist thereby refreshes and expands the idea of the human dimension connecting ancient thinking and contemporary studies. In its light, we can envision a truly liberated world culture of human thought and free expression to come. This book puts the lie to the triumphalism of AI, with a warm smile on its face.'--Daniel O'Hara, Temple University, USA.