| Elegy for Theory Rhetorically charged debates over theory have divided scholars of the humanities for decades. In Elegy for Theory , D. N. Rodowick steps back from well-rehearsed arguments pro and con to assess why theory has become such a deeply contested concept. Far from lobbying for a return to the "high theory" of the 1970s and 1980s, he calls for a vigorous dialogue on what should constitute a new, ethically inflected philosophy of the humanities. Rodowick D. N. : D. N. Rodowick is Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. |