The task of cultural critique / / Teresa L. Ebert
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| Autore: |
Ebert Teresa L. <1951->
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| Titolo: |
The task of cultural critique / / Teresa L. Ebert
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| Pubblicazione: | Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.07 |
| Soggetto topico: | Culture - Study and teaching - History |
| Criticism - History | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Anatomy of contemporary cultural critique. The spectral concrete ; The abstract of transformative critique ; Desiring surfaces -- The work of critique. Affective pedagogy and feminist critique ; Chick lit: "not your mother's romance novels" ; Red love ; Globalization, the "multitude," and cynical critique. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In this study, Teresa L. Ebert makes a spirited, pioneering case for a new cultural critique committed to the struggles for human freedom and global equality. Demonstrating the implosion of the linguistic turn that isolates culture from historical processes, The Task of Cultural Critique maps the contours of an emerging materialist critique that contributes toward a critical social and cultural consciousness. Through groundbreaking analyses of cultural texts, Ebert questions the contemporary Derridian dogma that asserts "the future belongs to ghosts." Events-to-come are not spectral, she contends, but the material outcome of global class struggles. Not "hauntology" but history produces cultural practices and their conflictive representations--from sexuality, war, and consumption to democracy, torture, globalization, and absolute otherness. With close readings of texts from Proust and Balzac to "Chick Lit, " from Lukács, de Man, Deleuze, and Marx to Derrida, Žižek, Butler, Kollontai, and Agamben, the book opens up new directions for cultural critique today. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The task of cultural critique |
| ISBN: | 9786613070111 |
| 9781283070119 | |
| 1283070111 | |
| 9780252091063 | |
| 025209106X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910973902303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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