Reviewing Political Criticism: Journals, Intellectuals, and the State

ISBN-13: 9780367599751 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 188 str.

Elisabeth K. Chaves

Opis

To understand critical activity, one must reflect on where this activity takes place - on the institutions of criticism that sustain it. Referred to by some as the ’natural habitat’ of intellectuals, journals, as the institutionalized sites of theoretical discourse, are often overlooked. Examining the rise of the ’review’ form of journal publicatio

Recenzje

’Elisabeth K. Chaves offers a fascinating study of what amounts to the history and future of public intellectuals who publish social criticism in reviews and journals. She considers paradigm-shifting outlets, from the New York Review of Books to Telos to, most recently, n+1 and Jacobin. She tracks the emergence of journals from pulp to pixels as she considers the impact of the Internet on intellectual life. A must-read by those interested in fostering outlets for social critics and political pundits who feel constrained by the tired tropes and tribalism of peer-reviewed academic journals.’ Ben Agger, University of Texas, Arlington, USA and author of Oversharing and Texting toward Utopia and editor of the e-journal Fast Capitalism, www.fastcapitalism.com ’A sweeping and engaging study of the practice of political criticism from the 18th century to the early 21st. Exploring how a wide range of journals confronted the challenges of politically engaged critical review, Chaves guides the reader through this complex terrain with a sharp eye.’ Emily Hauptmann, Western Michigan University, USA

Spis treści

Reviewing Political Criticism

O autorze

Elisabeth K. Chaves is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech, USA.