Theorizing Culture Critique

Author : Barbara Adam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135366810
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theorizing Culture written by Barbara Adam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly original and timely volume engages scholars from the breadth of social science and the humanities to provide a critical perspective on cultural forms, practices and identities. It looks beyond the postmodern debate to reinstate the critical dimension in cultural analysis, providing a "student-friendly" introduction to key contemporary issues such as the body, AIDS, race, the environment and virtual reality. Theorizing Culture is essential reading for undergraduate courses in cultural and media studies and sociology, and will have considerable appeal for students and scholars of critical theory, gender studies and the history of ideas.

Author : Barbara Adam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135366829
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theorizing Culture written by Barbara Adam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly original and timely volume engages scholars from the breadth of social science and the humanities to provide a critical perspective on cultural forms, practices and identities. It looks beyond the postmodern debate to reinstate the critical dimension in cultural analysis, providing a "student-friendly" introduction to key contemporary issues such as the body, AIDS, race, the environment and virtual reality. Theorizing Culture is essential reading for undergraduate courses in cultural and media studies and sociology, and will have considerable appeal for students and scholars of critical theory, gender studies and the history of ideas.

Author : Barbara Adam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113421961X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theorizing Culture: Critique written by Barbara Adam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Catherine Belsey
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415252898
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture and the Real written by Catherine Belsey and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Belsey explains the views of recent theorists, including Jean-François Lyotard, Judith Butler and Slavoj Zizek, in order to take issue with their accounts of what it is to be human.

Author : Barbara Adam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134219547
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theorizing Culture: Critique written by Barbara Adam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Tim Dant
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761954798
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Social Theory written by Tim Dant and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical theory has left an indelible mark on postwar social thought. But what are the relations between critical theory and 'the cultural turn'? This text demonstrates the origins of critical theory in the Marxian analysis of the capitalist mode of production and Freudian psychoanalysis.

Author : Whitney Davis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400836433
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A General Theory of Visual Culture written by Whitney Davis and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is cultural about vision--or visual about culture? In this ambitious book, Whitney Davis provides new answers to these difficult and important questions by presenting an original framework for understanding visual culture. Grounded in the theoretical traditions of art history, A General Theory of Visual Culture argues that, in a fully consolidated visual culture, artifacts and pictures have been made to be seen in a certain way; what Davis calls "visuality" is the visual perspective from which certain culturally constituted aspects of artifacts and pictures are visible to informed viewers. In this book, Davis provides a systematic analysis of visuality and describes how it comes into being as a historical form of vision. Expansive in scope, A General Theory of Visual Culture draws on art history, aesthetics, the psychology of perception, the philosophy of reference, and vision science, as well as visual-cultural studies in history, sociology, and anthropology. It provides penetrating new definitions of form, style, and iconography, and draws important and sometimes surprising conclusions (for example, that vision does not always attain to visual culture, and that visual culture is not always wholly visible). The book uses examples from a variety of cultural traditions, from prehistory to the twentieth century, to support a theory designed to apply to all human traditions of making artifacts and pictures--that is, to visual culture as a worldwide phenomenon.

Author : Marko Ampuja
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004229612
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theorizing Globalization written by Marko Ampuja and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Marko Ampuja offers a critical reassessment of mainstream perspectives on globalization, challenging their media-centrism and their lack of historical materialist analysis of global capitalism and the power of neoliberalism.

Author : Richard King
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231518242
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion, Theory, Critique written by Richard King and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion, Theory, Critique is an essential tool for learning about theory and method in the study of religion. Leading experts engage with contemporary and classical theories as well as non-Western cultural contexts. Unlike other collections, this anthology emphasizes the dynamic relationship between "religion" as an object of study and different methodological approaches and openly addresses the question of the manifold ways in which "religion," "secular," and "culture" are imagined within different disciplinary horizons. This volume is the first textbook which seeks to engage discussion of classical approaches with contemporary cultural and critical theories. Contributors write on the influence of the natural sciences in the study of religion; the role of European Christianity in modeling theories of religion; religious experience and the interface with cognitive science; the structure and function of religious language; the social-scientific study of religion; ritual in religion; the phenomenology of religion; critical theory and religion; embodiment and religion; the impact of colonialism and modernity; theorizing religion in terms of race and ethnicity; links among religion, nationalism, and globalization; the interplay of gender, sex, and religion; and religion and the environment. Each chapter introduces the topic, identifies key theorists and issues, and respects the pluralistic nature of the scholarship in the field. Altogether, this collection scrutinizes the explicit and implicit assumptions theorists make about religion as an object of analysis.

Author : Bernard E. Harcourt
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231551452
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critique and Praxis written by Bernard E. Harcourt and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical philosophy has always challenged the division between theory and practice. At its best, it aims to turn contemplation into emancipation, seeking to transform society in pursuit of equality, autonomy, and human flourishing. Yet today’s critical theory often seems to engage only in critique. These times of crisis demand more. Bernard E. Harcourt challenges us to move beyond decades of philosophical detours and to harness critical thought to the need for action. In a time of increasing awareness of economic and social inequality, Harcourt calls on us to make society more equal and just. Only critical theory can guide us toward a more self-reflexive pursuit of justice. Charting a vision for political action and social transformation, Harcourt argues that instead of posing the question, “What is to be done?” we must now turn it back onto ourselves and ask, and answer, “What more am I to do?” Critique and Praxis advocates for a new path forward that constantly challenges each and every one of us to ask what more we can do to realize a society based on equality and justice. Joining his decades of activism, social-justice litigation, and political engagement with his years of critical theory and philosophical work, Harcourt has written a magnum opus.