Culture and Critique: An Introduction to the Critical Discourses of Cultural Studies

ISBN-13: 9780367315290 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 308 str.

Jere Paul Surber

Opis

Written by philosopher Jere Surber, Culture and Critique familiarizes students with both the broad and specialized meanings of cultural studies, providing detailed explanations of theoretical terms, critical strategies, and discursive traditions upon which it is based. In its broad and more theoretical sense, cultural studies indicates a range of m

Spis treści

Introduction: Theorizing Culture, Practicing Criticism -- 1 The Critical Discourse of Liberal Humanism -- 2 Hermeneutics: Interpretation and Critique -- 3 The Materialist Critique of Culture -- 4 Psychoanalysis and the Critique of Culture -- 5 The Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School -- 6 Formalist, Structuralist, and Semiotic Analyses of Culture -- 7 Poststructuralist and Postmodernist Discourses -- 8 Contemporary Cultural Studies -- Conclusion: The Future of Critical Discourse

O autorze

Jere Paul Surber is professor of philosophy and cultural studies at the University of Denver.