The book is fresh, unprogrammatic and lively: a reminder of thinking at its best. The Philosopher s Magazine The question of the meaning of the term life after theory is approached through a series of interview with Jacques Derrida, Frank Kermode, Christopher Norris and Toril Moi. The last three are conducted by one of the editors of the volume (Michael Payne), while the interview with Derrida is the transcript of a round table discussion held at Loughborough University on November 10th, 2001. some touchstones for thinking the problem of what life after theory might mean are clearly laid out. Kir Kuiken, Philosophy in Review/ Comptes Rendus Philosophiques, January 2004-June 2004 "life.after.theory is both a useful contribution to post-structuralism and a critique of what remains of it." Biografía del autor Michael Payne is John P. Crozer Professor of English at Bucknell University, Pennsylvania. John Schad is Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University.