theory Archives - Franklin Humanities Institute https://humanitiesfutures.org/tag/theory/ Humanities Futures Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:20:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 Cosmographic Experiments: Thinking, Doing, and Being with Classical Chinese Medicine https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/cosmographic-experiments-thinking-doing-and-being-with-classical-chinese-medicine/ Fri, 06 Jul 2018 16:47:51 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=papers&p=3226 In questioning the status of materialist theory and the process of theorization in traditional Chinese medicine, and in postsocialist life more broadly speaking, classical Chinese medicine advocates imagine nondialectical materialisms as immanent ways of thinking, doing, and being in the world.

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]]> The Future of Political Theory: Revisiting Its Past and Some Thoughts About Its Future https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/future-political-theory-revisiting-past-thoughts-future/ Wed, 13 Dec 2017 19:32:09 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=papers&p=2930 This short essay revisits answers to a similar question about the future of political theory posed 15 years ago and considers the significance of changes that have occurred since then.

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]]> The Future of Political Theory: Political Theory as an Anti-discipline https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/future-political-theory-political-theory-anti-discipline/ Fri, 13 Oct 2017 19:16:35 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=papers&p=2753 Political theory may be a strange academic discipline, or even an anti-discipline, but in the end, it doesn’t matter where political theory fits into the academy. What matters is the role it plays, or fails to play, in sustaining a democratic society.

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