{"product_id":"avidly-reads-theory-hardback-9781479827398","title":"Avidly Reads Theory (Hardback) 9781479827398","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAvidly Reads Theory\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJordan Alexander Stein (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781479827398\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 8 October 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e152 pages, 8 black and white illustrations\u003cbr\u003e17.8 x 11.1 x 1.7 cm, 0.308 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eJordan Alexander Stein's \u003ci\u003eTheory\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the excellent little books in the relatively new series\u003ci\u003e Avidly Reads,\u003c\/i\u003e from New York University Press.\u003ci\u003e Avidly Reads\u003c\/i\u003e has been a column in the\u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e for a while, and the popularity of it entirely justifies the book series. (Popmatters)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Theory offered us a way of understanding the world that, like so many youthful exuberances, was both vital and ridiculous.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As an avowed \"theory head,\" Jordan Alexander Stein confronts a contradiction: that the abstract, and often frustrating rigors of theory also produced a sense of pride and identity for him and his friends: an idea of how to be and a way to live. Although Stein explains what theory is, this is not an introduction or a how-to. Organized around five ways that theory makes us feel—silly, stupid, sexy, seething and stuck—Stein travels back to the late nineties to tell a story of coming of age at a particular moment and to measure how that moment lives on now.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAvidly Reads\u003c\/i\u003e is a series of short books about how culture makes us feel. Founded in 2012 by Sarah Blackwood and Sarah Mesle, \u003ci\u003eAvidly\u003c\/i\u003e—an online magazine supported by the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e—specializes in short-form critical essays devoted to thinking and feeling. \u003ci\u003eAvidly Reads\u003c\/i\u003e is an exciting new series featuring books that are part memoir, part cultural criticism, each bringing to life the author's emotional relationship to a cultural artifact or experience. \u003ci\u003eAvidly Reads \u003c\/i\u003einvites us to explore the surprising pleasures and obstacles of everyday life. This is a story about the emotional lives of ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591097741592,"sku":"9781479827398","price":51.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/avidly-reads-theory-hardback-9781479827398","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}