{"product_id":"text-john-mowitt-9780822312734","title":"Text: The Genealogy of an Antidisciplinary Object","description":"The concept of textuality in recent decades has come to designate a fundamentally contested terrain within a number of academic disciplines. How it came to occupy this position is the subject of John Mowitt's book, a critical genealogy of the social and intellectual conditions that contributed to the emergence of the textual object.\u003cbr\u003eBeginning with the \u003ci\u003eTel Quel\u003c\/i\u003e group in France in the sixties and seventies, Mowitt's study details how a certain interdisciplinary crisis prompted academics to rethink the conditions of cultural interpretation. Concentrating on three disciplinary projects--literary analysis, film studies, and musicology--Mowitt shows how textuality's emergence called into question not merely the relations among these disciplines, but also the cultural logic of disciplinary reason as such.\u003cbr\u003eAt once an effort to define \"the text\" and to explore and extend the theory of textuality, this book illustrates why the notion of interdisciplinary research has recently acquired such urgency. At the same time, by emphasizing the genealogical dimension of the textual object, Mowitt raises the issues of its \"antidisciplinary\" character, and by extension its immediate pertinence for the current debates over multiculturalism and Eurocentrism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Mowitt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822312735\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822312734\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/18\/1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 5.70w x 0.70d","brand":"John Mowitt","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086966436095,"sku":"9780822312734","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_03be0b01-e041-4d75-810b-642bd70e381b.jpg?v=1769097528","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/text-john-mowitt-9780822312734","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}