{"product_id":"avidly-reads-theory-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\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/08\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781479801008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs","brand":"Jordan Alexander Stein","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36652721635484,"sku":"9781479801008","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_3ab93830-41dc-48fc-b7f0-06171fdb3099.jpg?v=1603880371","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/avidly-reads-theory-9781479801008","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}