1st Edition

Culture And Critique An Introduction To The Critical Discourses Of Cultural Studies

By Jere Paul Surber Copyright 1998
    308 Pages
    by Routledge

    304 Pages
    by Routledge

    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