Modern Culture And Critical Theory

Author : Russell A. Berman
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299120849
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Culture and Critical Theory written by Russell A. Berman and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are the arguments of the Frankfurt School still relevant? Modern Culture and Critical Theory investigates this question in the context of important issues in contemporary cultural politics: neoconservatism and new social movements, discontents with modernity and debates on postmodernism, the political hegemony of Ronald Reagan, and the cultural hegemony of structuralism and poststructuralism. Russell Berman thoughtfully explores the theories of Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, Lyotard, and Foucault and their relevance to both historical and contemporary issues in literature, politics, and the arts.

Author : John B. Thompson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745668763
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ideology and Modern Culture written by John B. Thompson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major new work, Thompson develops an original account of ideology and relates it to the analysis of culture and mass communication in modern Societies. Thompson offers a concise and critical appraisal of major contributions to the theory of ideology, from Marx and Mannheim, to Horkheimer, Adorno and Habermas. He argues that these thinkers - and social and political theorists more generally - have failed to deal adequately with the nature of mass communication and its role in the modern world. In order to overcome this deficiency, Thompson undertakes a wide-ranging analysis of the development of mass communication, outlining a distinctive social theory of the mass media and their impact.

Author : David Gartman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415524202
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture, Class, and Critical Theory written by David Gartman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on developing a theory of culture that reveals how ideas create and legitimize social inequality, using empirical case studies ranging from automobile design to architecture to compare and critique two of the most influential theories of culture in contemporary sociology. It questions to what extent our culture reflects class inequality, and to what extent our culture masks those inequalities through the sameness of unified mass culture.

Author : John Storey
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 9780137761210
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Theory and Popular Culture written by John Storey and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 1998 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reader on popular culture

Author : Andrew Milner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134419201
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Cultural Theory written by Andrew Milner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. This lucid and concise overview brings a much needed sense and history and theoretical scale to the growth of cultural studies. The authors identify six major paradigms in cultural theory: utilitarianism, cultural materialism, critical theory and postmodernism. They outline social and discursive contexts within each of these has developed and provide the essential grounding to understand current debates in the field. This third edition has been extensively revised to include new material on the new historicism, queer theory, black and Latino cultural studies, cultural policy and posthumanism, and on the work of thinkers such as Zizek, Bourdieu, Deleuze and Guattari.

Author : Ben Agger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134080174
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Studies As Critical Theory written by Ben Agger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the field of cultural studies and argues for its relevance in addressing the enormous impact of popular culture and mass media today. Among the perspectives analysed are the Marxist sociology of culture and poststructural/postmodern analysis

Author : Mark Poster
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231080576
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics, Theory, and Contemporary Culture written by Mark Poster and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflects the work of the Critical Theory Institute at the U. of California, Irvine, which, from the fall of 1988 to the spring of 1991, considered the topic Critical Theory, Contemporary Culture, and the Question of the Political. This volume consists largely of essays, by members of the group and invited guests, that were presented, discussed, and revised during that period. Paper edition (08057-3), $17.50. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Jeffrey T. Nealon
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791488012
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Frankfurt School written by Jeffrey T. Nealon and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reexamination of key Frankfurt School thinkers—Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse—in the light of contemporary theory and cultural studies across the disciplines, Rethinking the Frankfurt School asks what consequences such a rethinking might have for study of the Frankfurt School on its own terms. Ironically, contemporary theorists find themselves turning back toward the Frankfurt School precisely for the reasons it was once scorned: for a notion of subjects whose desires are less liberated and multiplied than they are produced and regulated by a far-reaching, very-nearly totalizing global culture industry. Indeed, as new questions concerning globalization and economic redistribution emerge, while analyses of identity politics and subjective transgression become less central to contemporary theory and cultural studies, the future of the Frankfurt School looks as promising and productive as its past has proven to be.

Author : Max Horkheimer
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826400833
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Theory written by Max Horkheimer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays, written in the 1930s and 1940s, represent a first selection in English from the major work of the founder of the famous Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. Horkheimer's writings are essential to an understanding of the intellectual background of the New Left and the to much current social-philosophical thought, including the work of Herbert Marcuse. Apart from their historical significance and even from their scholarly eminence, these essays contain an immediate relevance only now becoming fully recognized.

Author : Michael Payne
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118438817
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory written by Michael Payne and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-06 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now thoroughly updated and revised, this new edition of the highly acclaimed dictionary provides an authoritative and accessible guide to modern ideas in the broad interdisciplinary fields of cultural and critical theory Updated to feature over 40 new entries including pieces on Alain Badiou, Ecocriticism, Comparative Racialization , Ordinary Language Philosophy and Criticism, and Graphic Narrative Includes reflective, broad-ranging articles from leading theorists including Julia Kristeva, Stanley Cavell, and Simon Critchley Features a fully updated bibliography Wide-ranging content makes this an invaluable dictionary for students of a diverse range of disciplines