Lament or Expectation: After Theory Revisited

Abstract

ABSTRACT This essay makes a comment on Terry Eagleton’s After Theory, discusses the major issues of this book including the relationship between theory and politics, postmodernism, cultural theory, anti-theory and the like, and verifies Eagleton’s “political criticism” position. This essay intents to indicate that After Theory is not a lament for “the death of theory” but an expectation to a new paradigm of theory.