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Cultural Theory: An Anthology is a collection of the essential readings that have shaped and defined the field of contemporary cultural theory
  • Features a historically diverse and methodologically concise collection of readings including rare essays such as Pierre Bourdieu's Forms of Capital (1986), Gilles Deleuze Postscript on Societies of Control (1992), and Fredric Jameson's Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture (1979)
  • Offers a radical new approach to teaching and studying cultural theory with material arranged around the central areas of inquiry in contemporary cultural study the status and significance of culture itself, power, ideology, temporality, space and scale, and subjectivity
  • Section introductions, designed to assist the student reader, provide an overview of each piece, explaining the context in which it was written and offering a brief intellectual biography of the author
  • A large annotated bibliography of primary and secondar

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    "Even if it does not engage this question of the animal, Cultural Theory constitutes a valuable resource for scholars, as well as a springboard for fur¬ther discussion." (Snell Review, 2011)


    Table of Contents

    Acknowledgments x

    Introduction 1

    Part 1 Reforming Culture 5

    Introduction 7

    1 Matthew Arnold, “Sweetness and Light” (1869) 12

    2 Thorstein Veblen, “Conspicuous Consumption” (1899) 18

    3 Herbert Marcuse, “The Affirmative Character of Culture” (1937) 27

    4 Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception” (1944) 40

    5 Raymond Williams, “Culture Is Ordinary” (1958) 53

    6 Fredric Jameson, “Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture” (1979) 60

    7 Stuart Hall, “Notes on Deconstructing ‘the Popular’ ” (1981) 72

    8 Pierre Bourdieu, “The Forms of Capital” (1986) 81

    Additional Readings 94

    Part 2 Power 99

    Introduction 101

    9 Karl Marx, “Preface” to A Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy (1859) 106

    10 Carl Schmitt, “Definition of Sovereignty” (1922) 109

    11 Frantz Fanon, “The Trials and Tribulations of National Consciousness” (1961) 114

    12 Michel Foucault, “Society Must Be Defended, 17 March 1976” (1976) 124

    13 Michel Foucault, “Method” (1976) 134

    14 Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript on the Societies of Control” (1992) 139

    15 Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, “Biopolitical Production” (2000) 143

    Additional Readings 150

    Part 3 Ideology 155

    Introduction 157

    16 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “The German Ideology” (1845) 161

    17 Georg Lukács, “Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat” (1923) 172

    18 Antonio Gramsci, “Hegemony” (1929) 188

    19 Louis Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation)” (1970) 204

    20 Stuart Hall, “Recent Developments in Theories of Language and Ideology: A Critical Note” (1980) 223

    21 Slavoj Žižek, “The Spectre of Ideology” (1989) 228

    Additional Readings 245

    Part 4 Space and Scale 249

    Introduction 251

    22 Dick Hebdige, “The Function of Subculture” (1979) 255

    23 Michel de Certeau, “Walking in the City” (1980) 264

    24 Benedict Anderson, “Imagined Communities” (1983) 274

    25 Arjun Appadurai, “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy” (1990) 282

    26 Doreen Massey, “Politics and Space/Time” (1992) 296

    27 David Harvey, “The Body as an Accumulation Strategy” (2000) 307

    28 Mike Davis, “Planet of Slums: Urban Involution and the Informal Proletariat” (2004) 318

    Additional Readings 332

    Part 5 Temporality 335

    Introduction 337

    29 Michel Foucault, “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History” (1977) 341

    30 Raymond Williams, “Dominant, Residual, and Emergent” (1977) 353

    31 Jean-François Lyotard, “Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?” (1979) 357

    32 Fernand Braudel, “History and the Social Sciences: The Longue Durée” (1980) 364

    33 Fredric Jameson, “Periodizing the 60s” (1984) 376

    34 Roberto Schwarz, “Brazilian Culture: Nationalism by Elimination” (1992) 391

    35 Ranajit Guha, “A Dominance without Hegemony and Its Historiography” (1997) 401

    Additional Readings 412

    Part 6 Subjectivity 415

    Introduction 417

    36 Frantz Fanon, “The Lived Experience of the Black Man” (1952) 422

    37 Jacques Lacan, “The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason since Freud” (1957) 432

    38 Luce Irigaray, “This Sex Which Is Not One” (1977) 449

    39 Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto” (1985) 454

    40 Judith Butler, “Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire” (1990) 472

    41 Paul Gilroy, “It Ain’t Where You’re From, It’s Where You’re At” (1990) 492

    42 Eve Sedgwick, “Axiomatic” (1990) 504

    Additional Readings 528

    Glossary of Terms 531

    Sources 538

    Index 541

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 13/04/2010
      ISBN13: 9781405180832, 978-1405180832
      ISBN10: 1405180838
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      Book Synopsis
      Cultural Theory: An Anthology is a collection of the essential readings that have shaped and defined the field of contemporary cultural theory
      • Features a historically diverse and methodologically concise collection of readings including rare essays such as Pierre Bourdieu's Forms of Capital (1986), Gilles Deleuze Postscript on Societies of Control (1992), and Fredric Jameson's Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture (1979)
      • Offers a radical new approach to teaching and studying cultural theory with material arranged around the central areas of inquiry in contemporary cultural study the status and significance of culture itself, power, ideology, temporality, space and scale, and subjectivity
      • Section introductions, designed to assist the student reader, provide an overview of each piece, explaining the context in which it was written and offering a brief intellectual biography of the author
      • A large annotated bibliography of primary and secondar

        Trade Review
        "Even if it does not engage this question of the animal, Cultural Theory constitutes a valuable resource for scholars, as well as a springboard for fur¬ther discussion." (Snell Review, 2011)


        Table of Contents

        Acknowledgments x

        Introduction 1

        Part 1 Reforming Culture 5

        Introduction 7

        1 Matthew Arnold, “Sweetness and Light” (1869) 12

        2 Thorstein Veblen, “Conspicuous Consumption” (1899) 18

        3 Herbert Marcuse, “The Affirmative Character of Culture” (1937) 27

        4 Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception” (1944) 40

        5 Raymond Williams, “Culture Is Ordinary” (1958) 53

        6 Fredric Jameson, “Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture” (1979) 60

        7 Stuart Hall, “Notes on Deconstructing ‘the Popular’ ” (1981) 72

        8 Pierre Bourdieu, “The Forms of Capital” (1986) 81

        Additional Readings 94

        Part 2 Power 99

        Introduction 101

        9 Karl Marx, “Preface” to A Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy (1859) 106

        10 Carl Schmitt, “Definition of Sovereignty” (1922) 109

        11 Frantz Fanon, “The Trials and Tribulations of National Consciousness” (1961) 114

        12 Michel Foucault, “Society Must Be Defended, 17 March 1976” (1976) 124

        13 Michel Foucault, “Method” (1976) 134

        14 Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript on the Societies of Control” (1992) 139

        15 Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, “Biopolitical Production” (2000) 143

        Additional Readings 150

        Part 3 Ideology 155

        Introduction 157

        16 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “The German Ideology” (1845) 161

        17 Georg Lukács, “Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat” (1923) 172

        18 Antonio Gramsci, “Hegemony” (1929) 188

        19 Louis Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation)” (1970) 204

        20 Stuart Hall, “Recent Developments in Theories of Language and Ideology: A Critical Note” (1980) 223

        21 Slavoj Žižek, “The Spectre of Ideology” (1989) 228

        Additional Readings 245

        Part 4 Space and Scale 249

        Introduction 251

        22 Dick Hebdige, “The Function of Subculture” (1979) 255

        23 Michel de Certeau, “Walking in the City” (1980) 264

        24 Benedict Anderson, “Imagined Communities” (1983) 274

        25 Arjun Appadurai, “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy” (1990) 282

        26 Doreen Massey, “Politics and Space/Time” (1992) 296

        27 David Harvey, “The Body as an Accumulation Strategy” (2000) 307

        28 Mike Davis, “Planet of Slums: Urban Involution and the Informal Proletariat” (2004) 318

        Additional Readings 332

        Part 5 Temporality 335

        Introduction 337

        29 Michel Foucault, “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History” (1977) 341

        30 Raymond Williams, “Dominant, Residual, and Emergent” (1977) 353

        31 Jean-François Lyotard, “Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?” (1979) 357

        32 Fernand Braudel, “History and the Social Sciences: The Longue Durée” (1980) 364

        33 Fredric Jameson, “Periodizing the 60s” (1984) 376

        34 Roberto Schwarz, “Brazilian Culture: Nationalism by Elimination” (1992) 391

        35 Ranajit Guha, “A Dominance without Hegemony and Its Historiography” (1997) 401

        Additional Readings 412

        Part 6 Subjectivity 415

        Introduction 417

        36 Frantz Fanon, “The Lived Experience of the Black Man” (1952) 422

        37 Jacques Lacan, “The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason since Freud” (1957) 432

        38 Luce Irigaray, “This Sex Which Is Not One” (1977) 449

        39 Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto” (1985) 454

        40 Judith Butler, “Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire” (1990) 472

        41 Paul Gilroy, “It Ain’t Where You’re From, It’s Where You’re At” (1990) 492

        42 Eve Sedgwick, “Axiomatic” (1990) 504

        Additional Readings 528

        Glossary of Terms 531

        Sources 538

        Index 541

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