Dictionary of Theories (More than 5000 Theories, Laws, and Hypotheses Described)
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Edition: HardcoverAudio: English (Published)
Published: 2004
ISBN: 0760753199
Number of pages: 637
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books
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Book Review: begs for competition, revision, and an expanded edition
Summary: 4 Stars
A helpful, unpretentious presentation of a most ambitious project: a reference which gathers many of the most important theories from many of the most pursued disciplines under one cover. The results here are decidedly mixed, but it's great to have on my shelf (I have about 80 lbs of reference books not used as regularly in boxes).
Simply put, many of the entries are quite good, replete with explanation, significance, history, and singular example - others are not, deficient in one or more of these essential categories, too narrow, or even dubious. The variation in quality seems to have to do with the individual contributor. An improvement would be to increase the staff for another edition, having, let's say, a minimum of ten contributors from each field involved, and then expanding the editing process within each field accordingly.
Examples of what I mean:
Good:
mise en abyme (1948) Literary Theory. The term originated with French novelist Andre Gide (1869-1951) and is exemplified in his novel The Counterfeiters (1926). Prominent in Postructuralism during the 1970's.
`Placed in the abyss': the infinite regress of mirrors. In narrative, a story within a story, the internal story mirroring and therefore commenting on the framing story. Also in Deconstruction, the infinite deferral of meanings.
A model of concinnity and explanation.
Bad:
revisionism (19th century) Politics. An adaptation of Marxism, originally associated with the German socialist Eduard Bernstein (1850-1932).
Capitalism was not in crisis, and its replacement by Socialism was likely to be a matter of peaceful development and adaptation. A British version of this body of ideas is Fabianism.
While the above may be the origin of the term in its present usage, revisionism is a much broader term theoretically, with enough applications not to be restricted merely to politics, and, even within the realm politics alone, is given a variety of interpretations of far greater contemporary import than the rather obscure, vapid, and narrow reference offered here.
All in all, the book is a great idea, in a useful ready-to-hand size and weight, which could and should be perfected and slightly expanded.
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