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ROMANTIC THEORY: FORMS OF REFLEXIVITY IN THE ROMANTIC ERA

ROMANTIC THEORY: FORMS OF REFLEXIVITY IN THE ROMANTIC ERA. By Leon Chai. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xx, 283 p.

Leon Chai's fine new study opens with a meditation on the "fate of theory," a discourse that seems to have languished since the early 1990s and now appears beset by chronic fatigue and epigonal tendencies. As he surmises, this may be the case because "our present forms of theory simply don't answer the questions we really want to ask" (vii). In particular Foucault's Order of Things, that "last attempt . . . at universal theory," appears to have won a Phyrric victory on behalf of theory. For, as Chai notes, its underlying paradigm of the episteme implied a ...

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