1st Edition
Culture And Critique An Introduction To The Critical Discourses Of Cultural Studies
By Jere Paul Surber
Copyright 1998
308 Pages
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Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
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Routledge
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The subject of this book is the various explicit and particular critical conceptions of and articulations about culture that have influenced our common understanding of ourselves and our societies. It provides an introduction to cultural studies in terms of economic and political power.
Introduction: Theorizing Culture, Practicing Criticism -- The Critical Discourse of Liberal Humanism -- Hermeneutics: Interpretation and Critique -- The Materialist Critique of Culture -- Psychoanalysis and the Critique of Culture -- The Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School -- Formalist, Structuralist, and Semiotic Analyses of Culture -- Poststructuralist and Postmodernist Discourses -- Contemporary Cultural Studies -- Conclusion: The Future of Critical Discourse
Biography
Jere Paul Surber
