Criticism and Politics : A Polemical Introduction

Beschreibung

Neuware - 'An accessible introduction to cultural theory and an original polemic about the purpose of criticism. What is criticism for Over the past few decades, violent disagreements over that question in the academy have burst into the news media. These conflicts have renewed the Culture Wars over the legacy of the 1960s, becoming entangled in national politics and leading to a new set of questions. Does a concern with race, gender, and sexuality, with unacknowledged power and privilege, with identity, give present critics the right to criticize the great works of the past If we have learned to see those works in terms of historical differences rather than universal truths, how is it that they speak to us at all In the study of the world's cultures, there is more than one way to avoid being Eurocentric; which way should we choose Re-examining key thinkers since 1970, including Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Edward Said, Hortense Spillers, Fredric Jameson, and Stuart Hall, Criticism and Politics offers both a non-specialist introduction to recent cultural theory and a strong new interpretation of how this theory applies to the everyday issue of what cultural critics do and how they should feel about what they do'--.

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Titel

Criticism and Politics : A Polemical Introduction

Verlag

Stanford University Press Sep 2022

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

1503633209

ISBN-13

9781503633209

Einband

Taschenbuch

Zustand

Neu

Abmessungen

226B x 150 H x 18 T Millimeter Breite: 226 mm, Höhe: 150 mm, Tiefe: 18 mm

Gewicht

386 Gramm

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