Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION: THE DEATH OF "ART"
Part 1 I AGAINST MODERNIST CULTURAL THEORY
Chapter 2 SO WHAT'S NEW? THE POSTMODERN PARADOX
Chapter 3 CRITIC AS STAR
Chapter 4 OPPOSITES DETRACT: SONTAG VERSUS BARTHES FOR BARTHES'S SAKE
Chapter 5 THE TENSIONS OF CRITICAL THEORY: IS NEGATIVE DIALECTICS ALL THERE IS?
Part 2 II LITERATURE AS SOCIAL KNOWLEDGE
Chapter 6 LITERATURE AS SOCIAL KNOWLEDGE: MIKHAIL BAKHTIN AND THE REEMERGENCE OF THE HUMAN SCIENCES
Chapter 7 BETWEEN CRITICISM AND ETHNOGRAPHY: RAYMOND WILLIAMS AND THE INTERVENTION OF CULTURAL STUDIES
Part 3 III CULTURAL POLITICS
Chapter 8 REFLECTIONS ON IDENTITY
Chapter 9 BIRTHRIGHTS
Chapter 10 PAULO FREIRE's RADICAL DEMOCRATIC HUMANISM
Chapter 11 THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING: JüRGEN HABERMAS IN AMERICA
Part 4 IV POLITICAL CULTURE
Chapter 12 THE DECLINE OF AMERICAN LIBERALISM
Chapter 13 PAST PERFECT
Chapter 14 SEEING GREEN
Chapter 15 IS DEMOCRACY POSSIBLE? THE DECLINE OF THE PUBLIC IN THE AMERICAN DEBATE Index
