1st Edition
Critique for What? Cultural Studies, American Studies, Left Studies
By Joel Pfister
Copyright 2006
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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Students want to know: What does one do with critique? Fortunately, some of the most provocative self-critical intellectuals, from the postwar period to the postmodern present, have wrestled with this. Joel Pfister, in Critique for What?, criss-crosses the Atlantic to take stock of exciting British and US cultural studies, American studies, and Left studies that challenge the academic... Read more
Part I: American Studies and Cultural Studies 1. The Americanization of Cultural Studies 2. British New Left Cultural Studies' Transnational Critiques of the United States Part II: Historical Studies and Literary Studies 3. On the history of Radical history and Cultural Studies 4. Complicity Critiques, the Artful Front, and Political Motivation Part III: Beyond Critique for Critiques' and Career's Sake 5. Popularism 6. Critique as Ism
Biography
Joel Pfister, Charles Lemert
“Pfister offers an illuminating discussion of how strategy can go beyond theoretical preoccupations to effect change. Throughout, Pfister draws usefully on his experience in the classroom and offers insights that will be rewarding for teachers of progressive critique. … The scope and accessibility of the book make it potentially important not only for specialists in cultural studies, American studies, and left studies, but also for academics and teachers in the social sciences and humanities and non-academics alike who are interested in the history and future of progressive critique. … Critique for What? Is, in short, an exceptional intellectual history that explains why critique matters and how it can be made to matter more.”
—The Journal of American Studies
"Absolutely excellent and incredibly rich, almost unique in its meditations."
