Theory is, and always has been, the precondition for thought. There can be no thinking without theory, no theory without thinking. Thinking Theory proposes a new way to understand the world by pairing unlikely theorists to more fully understand how our society’s philosophical, political, and economic stakes reveal themselves in their complexity. It is theory-through-pairing, thinking together, thinking dialectically, thinking beyond the dialectic that allows the project of theory to come into an entirely new articulation. Ultimately, the books in Thinking Theory demonstrate the importance of consistently thinking theory anew.