{"product_id":"avidly-reads-theory-jordan-alexander-stein-9781479801008","title":"Avidly Reads Theory","description":"\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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jordan Alexander Stein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1479801003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781479801008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/08\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.90h x 4.40w x 0.50d","brand":"Jordan Alexander Stein","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43989884829951,"sku":"9781479801008","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_92e31649-191b-4fd9-b74f-e53d142f7de3.jpg?v=1683301884","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/avidly-reads-theory-jordan-alexander-stein-9781479801008","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}