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Book SynopsisAn innovative exploration of the ethical and political relationship between Cultural Studies and Post-Marxist theory.
Trade Review! this book will be indispensable in the ongoing and endless work of deciding what cultural studies and its intervention can be. -- Dave Huddart, Chinese Unievrsity of Hong Kong Borderlands e-journal In the first sustained scholarly assessment of the scandal of post-Marxism Bowman traces the struggle -- both intellectual and political -- of academic Marxism to keep its footing on the long march through the institution. As the "versus" that hinges his title suggests, neither post-Marxism nor Cultural Studies remain unscathed by Bowman's staging of this face off. Post-Marxism versus Cultural Studies rewards the serious reader concerned to come to terms with the discursive politics of the contemporary university. -- John Mowitt, Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota This is an exciting field which is beginning to open up a sustained "thinking about" politics from a post-structuralist perspective ! This is an ambitious book which will make a significant impact in its field. -- Martin McQuillan, Professor of Cultural Theory and Analysis, University of Leeds This book offers a much-needed contribution to a delayed debate on the orientation of both disciplines. Its discussion of the relation between academic work and the institutional political terrain will attract specialised readers in particular. -- Hakki Tas, Yale University Political Studies Review ! this book will be indispensable in the ongoing and endless work of deciding what cultural studies and its intervention can be. In the first sustained scholarly assessment of the scandal of post-Marxism Bowman traces the struggle -- both intellectual and political -- of academic Marxism to keep its footing on the long march through the institution. As the "versus" that hinges his title suggests, neither post-Marxism nor Cultural Studies remain unscathed by Bowman's staging of this face off. Post-Marxism versus Cultural Studies rewards the serious reader concerned to come to terms with the discursive politics of the contemporary university. This is an exciting field which is beginning to open up a sustained "thinking about" politics from a post-structuralist perspective ! This is an ambitious book which will make a significant impact in its field. This book offers a much-needed contribution to a delayed debate on the orientation of both disciplines. Its discussion of the relation between academic work and the institutional political terrain will attract specialised readers in particular.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Preface; One - Cultural Studies and Post-Marxism; Introduction: Of Deconstruction into Politics; The Text of Cultural Studies; The Problem with the Text; The Institutional Articulation and Dissemination of Texts and Discourses; Two - Cultural Studies versus Post-Marxism; Two Texts of Cultural Studies; Stuart Hall's Closure versus Post-Marxist Discourse; The Political Disciplinary Object; Textual versus Discourse Analysis; Cultural Studies versus Political Analysis; The Object of the Subject; Deconstruction versus Post-Marxism; Three - Theory versus Practice; Practice versus Theory; Theory versus Practice; Post-Marxist Theory and Practice; Banal Pragmatism versus High Theory; The (Dis)Articulation of Theory and Practice; Knaves versus Fools; Investments and Institutions; Four - Post-Marxist Cultural Studies' Theory, Politics and Intervention; Relations and Effects; The Necessity of Articulation; The Necessity of Institution; The (Dis)Articulation of Post-Marxism and Politics; For a New Intervention; The Necessity of Deconstruction; Bibliography; Index.
