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T H E O R Y

Theory seeks the designs that organize the infinite variety of cultural meanings. Theory becomes critical theory when it confronts its own limits. (Hamlet would be king of infinite space were it not that he has bad dreams; the same could be said of theory.) The critical resources mobilized by “Thinking with Shakespeare” include psychoanalysis, philosophy, political theory, iconography, hermeneutics, and poetics, taken as ways of thinking about thought in relation to its limits, conditions, and contingencies.

Hannah Arendt's Renaissance
abstract for paper, Berlin conference, "Reconstructing the Renaissance,"
May 2006

Thinking with Shakespeare
Minigraph proposal for Shakespeare Now!
Word Doc

Manifesto
ThinkingWithShakespeare.org

A Manifesto for Experimental Critical Theory
UCLA Center for Modern and Contemporary Studies
Ends of Theory Seminar / Kenneth Reinhard
ThinkingWithShakespeare.org/web page

Manifesto: Literature of Citizenship
Epilogue to forthcoming book by Julia Reinhard Lupton
(download MS Word Document)

theory | iconography | hermeneutics | sexuality + psychoanalysis
poetics, politics, public sphere | syllabi | resources | products | julia lupton