Rodowick s project is not merely to make yet another intervention in the often rhetorically-charged debates in favor of or against theory that have occupied, divided, and haunted scholars across the humanities in the last decades. Instead, he opens the space for a historical, intellectual, and philosophical journey in quest of the senses of theory that is simultaneously an ethical and political commitment to a specific vision of what the humanities are and should continue to be in the twenty-first century.--Paola Marrati, Johns Hopkins University"