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Lädt ... Theorrhoea and Aftervon Raymond Tallis
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Theorrhoea and After completes the work of the author's previous critiques which refuted post-Saussurean thought, and observes the tactics used by theorists to keep theory alive. Tallis then moves on to examine literature and the other arts from a viewpoint that goes beyond the ideas of those advanced by contemporary postmodernist thought. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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If you read Tallis's earlier works, such as In Defence of Realism or Not Saussure, there is already an oppositional, iconoclastic tone on display. In those works, however, it is somewhat counterbalanced by the fact that Tallis has a reasonable point to make about the shortcomings of theory. Theorrhoea and After, by contrast, has stripped away much of that adventurous sense of critique and instead turned into an unadulterated diatribe of anger and resentment.
A lot of what Tallis includes in this volume he has published elsewhere. I mostly read this book for its chapter on Jacques Lacan - "The Strange Case of Jacques L." - which merely restates the points from Not Saussure about the problems of the mirror stage, together with complaints about Lacan's "unreadable" style and accusations that he is only famous because he hoodwinked people with his personal charisma. You know what? Both those things are true, Prof. Tallis, but there is even *more* to Lacan than that, as a number of recent groundbreaking works inspired by Lacanian ideas have shown.
Tallis's position, though, is that if he doesn't like or understand it, then no one should. There is so much arrogance and self-righteousness in both his rhetorical style and his grumpy-old-man opinions, many of which are as baseless and subjective as the positions he attacks, that it becomes impossible to take him seriously. I mean, just look at his title: "theorrhoea," a combination of "theory" and "diarrhea"? That kind of arrogant contempt tells you everything you need to know about the man and his work. ( )