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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821713203321

Autore

Milner Andrew

Titolo

Contemporary cultural theory : an introduction / / Andrew Milner and Jeff Browitt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

0-415-30100-9

1-134-41919-8

0-203-96437-3

1-134-41920-1

Edizione

[3rd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BrowittJeff

Disciplina

306.01

Soggetti

Culture - Philosophy

Cultural relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previous ed.: London : UCL, 1994.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Cultural studies and cultural theory; DEFINING CULTURE; DEFINING CULTURAL STUDIES; CULTURAL STUDIES AND CULTURAL THEORY; CULTURE AND SOCIETY: ANTI-UTILITARIANISM AND MODERNITY; UTILITARIANISM AND ITS OTHERS; 2 Literature and society: from culturalism to cultural materialism; GERMAN CULTURALISM: HERMENEUTICS AND HISTORICISM; BRITISH CULTURALISM: FROM ARNOLD TO LEAVIS; THE NEW LEFT: THOMPSON, HOGGART AND WILLIAMS; CULTURAL MATERIALISM; NEW HISTORICISM; CULTURAL STUDIES: FROM HOGGART TO HALL

3 Critical theory: from ideology critique to the sociology of cultureMARX, WEBER AND FREUD; LUKACS, GRAMSCI AND THE ORIGINS Of WESTERN MARXISM; THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL; HABERMAS: FROM CRITICAL THEORY TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE; ZIZEK: CRITICAL THEORY GOES LACANIAN; BOURDIEU: FROM THE SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE TO CRITICAL THEORY; 4 Semiology: from structuralism to post-structuralism; DURKHEIM AND SAUSSURE; RUSSIAN FORMALISM: FROM SHKLOVSKY TO BAKHTIN; HIGH STRUCTURALISM; POST-



STRUCTURALISM: DECONSTRUCTION AND GENEALOGY; POST-STRUCTURALISM: LACAN, DELEUZE AND GUATTARI

5 The cultural politics of differenceSEX, GENDER AND SEXUALITY; NATIONALISM, MULTICULTURALISM AND POSTCOLONIALISM; RACE AND ETHNICITY IN BLACK AND LATINO CULTURAL STUDIES; 6 Postmodernism and cultural theory; POSTMODERNISM, POSTMDDERNITY AND 'POST-WAR' LATE CAPITALISM; MODERNISM, POSTMDDERNISM AND THE POPULAR; CELEBRATING POSTMODERNISM: LYOTARD AND BAUDRILLARD; POSTMODERNISM AND THE INTELLIGENTSIA; MAPPING POSTMODERNISM: JAMESON; THE POLITICS OF POSTMOOERNISM; THE ILLUSIONS OF POSTMODERNISM; 7 Cultural criticism and cultural policy; CULTURAL STUDIES AND CULTURAL CRITICISM

CULTURAL STUDIES AND CULTURAL POLICYFROM CULTURAL CRITICISM TO CULTURAL ENGINEERING; CULTURAL STUDIES AND CULTURAL CHANGE; CRITICISM AND GLOBALISATION; Glossary; Appendix: The institutionalisation of academic cultural studies; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.