Paul Bowman

Post-Marxism Versus Cultural Studies (eBook, PDF)

Theory, Politics and Intervention

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Produktbeschreibung

Post-Marxism versus Cultural Studies is an innovative exploration of the ethical and political significance of Cultural Studies and Post-Marxist discourse theory. It argues that although Cultural Studies and post-Marxism tend to present themselves as distinct entities, they actually share a project - that of taking on the political. Post-Marxism presents itself as having a developed theory of political strategy, while Cultural Studies has claimed to be both practical and political. Bowman examines these intertwined, overlapping, controversial and contested claims and orientations by way of a deconstructive reading that is led by the question of intervention: what is the intervention of post-Marxism, of Cultural Studies, of each into the other, and into other institutional and political contexts and scenes?Through considerations of key aspects of Cultural Studies and cultural theory, Post-Marxism versus Cultural Studies argues that the very thing that is fundamental to both of these 'politicised' approaches - the quest to establish a theory of intervention, and to relate this to a practice - actually remains frustrated and unrealised as a direct result of the way this has been approached. Because of this stalemate, Post-Marxism versus Cultural Studies proposes a new theory of pragmatic intervention - one that is derived from Derridean deconstruction, post-Marxism and Cultural Studies, and which will be of importance and value for politicised academics and intellectuals working in all areas of political and Cultural Studies.Key Features* An innovative take on the disciplines of Cultural Studies and Post-Marxism with a clear account of what Cultural Studies and post-Marxism are and why they are important* Offers explanations, accounts and critiques of key figures of Cultural Studies and post-Marxism, such as Butler, Derrida, Hall, Laclau, Mowitt, Rorty and Zizek* Draws out the similarities and clarifies the signifi

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748628797
• Artikelnr.: 38223599

Autorenporträt

Paul Bowman is Reader in Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. He is the author of Post-Marxism versus Cultural Studies (2007), Deconstructing Popular Culture (2008), Theorizing Bruce Lee (2010), Culture and the Media (2012), Beyond Bruce Lee (2013) and Reading Rey Chow (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
One - Cultural Studies and Post-Marxism
Introduction: Of Deconstruction into Politics
The Text of Cultural Studies
The Problem with the Text
The Institutional Articulation and Dissemination of Texts and Discourses
Two - Cultural Studies versus Post-Marxism
Two Texts of Cultural Studies
Stuart Hall's Closure versus Post-Marxist Discourse
The Political Disciplinary Object
Textual versus Discourse Analysis
Cultural Studies versus Political Analysis
The Object of the Subject
Deconstruction versus Post-Marxism
Three - Theory versus Practice
Practice versus Theory
Theory versus Practice
Post-Marxist Theory and Practice
Banal Pragmatism versus High Theory
The (Dis)Articulation of Theory and Practice
Knaves versus Fools
Investments and Institutions
Four - Post-Marxist Cultural Studies' Theory, Politics and Intervention
Relations and Effects
The Necessity of Articulation
The Necessity of Institution
The (Dis)Articulation of Post-Marxism and Politics
For a New Intervention
The Necessity of Deconstruction
Bibliography
Index.