<p>“A splendid set of studies from a consummate critical theorist. Leading us into theoretical discourse with disparate threads, John Mowitt offers here a singular textual labyrinth, woven in the exemplary spirit of sustained scholarly engagement and enjoyment.” —Rey Chow, Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Duke University, USA</p>

<p>“Thanks to countless conversations that he animates vividly, John Mowitt demonstrates with rigor and intelligence that Theory is here and now, not as a series of concepts to be applied, but as a way of reading life and texts, thus offering an indispensable propaedeutic for our critical humanities.” —Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania, USA, and Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences</p>

<p>“Separating theory and practice has done higher education in the human sciences considerable harm. John Mowitt is among the very few who have been working on a productive and persistent undoing of this polarization. We now have a chance to learn from this sustained work in Offering Theory.” —Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Author of An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization</p>