booky book

[pylduck]

Hey smart peeps on my flist (and beyond). Has anyone read Anne Norton's 95 Theses on Politics, Culture, and Method? Would you recommend it? Just curious...

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[poetofthefuture.livejournal.com]

Don't know the book. Do know that her earlier work is well-respected. The book description does suggest "off the deep end," but maybe not. Political theorists can be an odd lot when they're at their best. And that's speaking as a recovering acolyte.

Let me know what you think!

[pylduck.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit curious because I heard Lisa Lowe read from her new project (I think the one after The Intimacies of Four Continents) that is a critique of the social sciences. The audience was very antagonistic in the q&a, in large part because they thought her account of political science to be too simplistic and ignorant of various strands of political theory that already critique positivist poli sci. Anyways, I thought this book might be interesting coming from someone in the field. (Though you're right it sounds like she might be a bit off the deep end on this one.)