Gregory Jones-Katz
Biographic Data
| ID | 910790 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregory Jones-Katz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregory |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones-Katz |
| SIGNATURE | JONES-KATZ G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Erecting the Institutional Edifice of Theory
This article focuses on the print culture of “theory” in Diacritics and Critical Inquiry. Each medium represented a variety of “theory journal,” and each medium’s organization, development, and production bore heavily on their intellectual projects. In addition, Diacritics and Critical Inquiry, from the 1970s to about 1990, were mediums that not only “carried out the aims of advanced research” but where scholars breached the “postwar settlement” …
The Modern Question
The Euphoria of Theory
In the last three decades of the twentieth century, theory became a “cognitive good” throughout the American academic humanities. The rise and uses of this new high-tech good fit the “new spirit of capitalism,” to quote Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello's 2018 book by the same name, a post-1960s “ideology that justifies engagement in capitalism.” A neoliberal ethos and disposition animated theory and possessed theorists, as well as spaces that circ…
Challenging Humanism
Jews used theory from the early 1970s to the late 80s at Yale University to revise humanism, a collection of intellectual traditions in the American academy until then largely shaped by a white, male, and Christian-European perspective. Jews, first, uncovered and reworked the philosophical principles of literary scholarship. Jews subsequently employed theory, often in anti-humanist ways, to help inaugurate a number of curricular and intellectual …
Kicking the Philosophy Habit
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Richard Rorty advocated that his confréres kick the ‘philosophy habit’-that is, adopt a post-positivist, post-metaphysical style of interpretation. Philosophers largely ignored Rorty’s clarion call. Unburdened by the kind of Selbstverständnis of scholarly mission held by most analytics, members of departments of literature instead became the most important advocates for reading literature philosophically during …
Presence
The pulse of Anglophone scholars in humanities departments during the last decades of the twentieth century quickened at the mention of Hayden White, Jacques Derrida, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Richar
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Presence
The pulse of Anglophone scholars in humanities departments during the last decades of the twentieth century quickened at the mention of Hayden White, Jacques Derrida, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Richar
Kicking the Philosophy Habit
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Richard Rorty advocated that his confréres kick the ‘philosophy habit’-that is, adopt a post-positivist, post-metaphysical style of interpretation. Philosophers largely ignored Rorty’s clarion call. Unburdened by the kind of Selbstverständnis of scholarly mission held by most analytics, members of departments of literature instead became the most important advocates for reading literature philosophically during …
Challenging Humanism
Jews used theory from the early 1970s to the late 80s at Yale University to revise humanism, a collection of intellectual traditions in the American academy until then largely shaped by a white, male, and Christian-European perspective. Jews, first, uncovered and reworked the philosophical principles of literary scholarship. Jews subsequently employed theory, often in anti-humanist ways, to help inaugurate a number of curricular and intellectual …
The Euphoria of Theory
In the last three decades of the twentieth century, theory became a “cognitive good” throughout the American academic humanities. The rise and uses of this new high-tech good fit the “new spirit of capitalism,” to quote Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello's 2018 book by the same name, a post-1960s “ideology that justifies engagement in capitalism.” A neoliberal ethos and disposition animated theory and possessed theorists, as well as spaces that circ…
Erecting the Institutional Edifice of Theory
This article focuses on the print culture of “theory” in Diacritics and Critical Inquiry. Each medium represented a variety of “theory journal,” and each medium’s organization, development, and production bore heavily on their intellectual projects. In addition, Diacritics and Critical Inquiry, from the 1970s to about 1990, were mediums that not only “carried out the aims of advanced research” but where scholars breached the “postwar settlement” …
The Modern Question
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