Postmodernism And The Politics Of 'Culture'
Regular price
€18.50
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
A01=Adam Katz
acts
Author_Adam Katz
authoritarianism
Category=JBCC
Category=JHM
Classical Emancipatory Ideal
comparative critique of cultural studies
Comprehensive Public Sphere
contemporary
Contemporary Cultural Studies
critical theory analysis
CS
cultural
De Lauretis
De Man's Discourse
De Man’s Discourse
democratic public sphere
Eccentric Subject
Egalitarian Social Movements
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
fantasy
fundamental
Fundamental Fantasy
identity politics scholarship
illocutionary
Illocutionary Acts
inclusive democracy research
Infinite Divisibility
International Cultural Studies
Laclau's Discourse
Laclau’s Discourse
Language Games
Louis Althusser's Notion
Louis Althusser’s Notion
MacKinnon's Theory
MacKinnon's Understanding
MacKinnon’s Theory
MacKinnon’s Understanding
micro-community studies
militant
Militant Particularisms
Postmodern Cultural Studies
Producer Consumer Networks
religious
Religious Authoritarianism
Singular Universal
social group dynamics
studies
Vice Versa
War Ii
Wolfe's Argument
Wolfe’s Argument
Product details
- ISBN 9780813368078
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Postmodernism and the Politics of 'Culture' is a comparative critical analysis of the political and intellectual ambitions of postmodernist critical theory and the academic discipline of cultural studies. Katz's polemical aim is to show that cultural studies comes up short in both areas, because its practitioners focus on too-narrow issues-primarily, celebrating the folkways of micro-communities-while denying the very possibility of studying, understanding, and changing society in any comprehensive way and to any universally beneficial purpose. He argues that scholars and activists alike would do well to make use of the analytical tools of postmodernist critical theory, whose practitioners acknowledge the political significance of the differences between social groups, but do not consider them to be unbridgeable, and so seek to develop a set of practices for creating a truly inclusive, truly democratic public sphere.
Adam Katz is an adjunct English instructor at Onondaga Community College in Syracuse, NY. He received his Ph.D. in English literature from Syracuse.
