{"product_id":"cultural-theory-9781405180832","title":"Cultural Theory","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCultural Theory: An Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of the essential readings that have shaped and defined the field of contemporary cultural theory  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures 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)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSection 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA large annotated  bibliography of primary and secondar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 1 Reforming Culture 5\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Matthew Arnold, “Sweetness and Light” (1869) 12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Thorstein Veblen, “Conspicuous Consumption” (1899) 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Herbert Marcuse, “The Affirmative Character of Culture” (1937) 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception” (1944) 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Raymond Williams, “Culture Is Ordinary” (1958) 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Fredric Jameson, “Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture” (1979) 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Stuart Hall, “Notes on Deconstructing ‘the Popular’ ” (1981) 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Pierre Bourdieu, “The Forms of Capital” (1986) 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdditional Readings 94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2 Power 99\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Karl Marx, “Preface” to A Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy (1859) 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Carl Schmitt, “Definition of Sovereignty” (1922) 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Frantz Fanon, “The Trials and Tribulations of National Consciousness” (1961) 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Michel Foucault, “Society Must Be Defended, 17 March 1976” (1976) 124\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Michel Foucault, “Method” (1976) 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript on the Societies of Control” (1992) 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, “Biopolitical Production” (2000) 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdditional Readings 150\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 3 Ideology 155\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “The German Ideology” (1845) 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Georg Lukács, “Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat” (1923) 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Antonio Gramsci, “Hegemony” (1929) 188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Louis Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation)” (1970) 204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Stuart Hall, “Recent Developments in Theories of Language and Ideology: A Critical Note” (1980) 223\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Slavoj Žižek, “The Spectre of Ideology” (1989) 228\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdditional Readings 245\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 4 Space and Scale 249\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 251\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Dick Hebdige, “The Function of Subculture” (1979) 255\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Michel de Certeau, “Walking in the City” (1980) 264\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Benedict Anderson, “Imagined Communities” (1983) 274\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Arjun Appadurai, “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy” (1990) 282\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Doreen Massey, “Politics and Space\/Time” (1992) 296\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 David Harvey, “The Body as an Accumulation Strategy” (2000) 307\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Mike Davis, “Planet of Slums: Urban Involution and the Informal Proletariat” (2004) 318\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdditional Readings 332\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 5 Temporality 335\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 337\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Michel Foucault, “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History” (1977) 341\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Raymond Williams, “Dominant, Residual, and Emergent” (1977) 353\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Jean-François Lyotard, “Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?” (1979) 357\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Fernand Braudel, “History and the Social Sciences: The Longue Durée” (1980) 364\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Fredric Jameson, “Periodizing the 60s” (1984) 376\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 Roberto Schwarz, “Brazilian Culture: Nationalism by Elimination” (1992) 391\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Ranajit Guha, “A Dominance without Hegemony and Its Historiography” (1997) 401\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdditional Readings 412\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 6 Subjectivity 415\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 417\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 Frantz Fanon, “The Lived Experience of the Black Man” (1952) 422\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 Jacques Lacan, “The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason since Freud” (1957) 432\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38 Luce Irigaray, “This Sex Which Is Not One” (1977) 449\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39 Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto” (1985) 454\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40 Judith Butler, “Subjects of Sex\/Gender\/Desire” (1990) 472\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41 Paul Gilroy, “It Ain’t Where You’re From, It’s Where You’re At” (1990) 492\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42 Eve Sedgwick, “Axiomatic” (1990) 504\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdditional Readings 528\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary of Terms 531\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSources 538\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 541\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407911657815,"sku":"9781405180832","price":89.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405180832.jpg?v=1730500934","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cultural-theory-9781405180832","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}