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Postmodernism and the politics of "culture"

Author: Adam Katz
Publisher: Boulder, CO : Westview Press, ©2000.
Series: Cultural studies.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Postmodernism and the Politics of "Culture" is a sustained critique of contemporary cultural studies and its theoretical underpinnings. The book situates texts and arguments of cultural studies in relation to symptomatic critiques of leading post-modern theorists such as Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, and Baudrillard. Katz explains how the politics of resistance to closure has reduced cultural studies to a new form of
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Katz, Adam.
Postmodernism and the politics of "culture"
Boulder, CO : Westview Press, c2000
(OCoLC)654985774
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Adam Katz
ISBN: 0813368073 9780813368078
OCLC Number: 44811641
Description: vi, 237 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Postmodernism and Cultural Studies --
Cultural Studies and the Academy --
The Problematic of Cultural Studies --
The (Post)Discipline of Postmodern Cultural Studies --
Articulation and the Politics of Identity --
The Question of the Outside --
Cultural Studies and the Politics of (Non)Identity --
Feminism and the Critique of Experience --
Toward a Postmodern Feminism? --
The De/Reconstruction of Identity --
Ideology --
Historicizing the Politics of (Non)Identity --
Feminism as Totalizing Theory and Ideology Critique --
Cultural Studies and Postmodernity --
Theory, Materialism, and Cultural Studies --
Theories of Postmodernity --
(Post)Modernity and Postmodernism as Ideology --
Materialism, Production, and Critique --
Cultural Studies and the Public Sphere --
Politics and Theory --
The Political Function of the Intellectual --
Power, Sovereignty, and Knowledge --
Counterpublics --
The Practice of Border-Crossing Counterpublicity --
Globalization, Universality, and Cultural Studies --
Foundational Polemics --
The Globalization of Cultural Studies --
Cosmopolitics --
Universality: Singular or Political Economic?.
Series Title: Cultural studies.
Responsibility: Adam Katz.
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This 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  Read more...

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