Contemporary Cultural Theory: An Introduction

by Milner,Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780415301008
• ISBN10: 0415301009
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-11-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This lucid and concise introduction to cultural theory brings a much-needed sense of historical and theoretical scale to the growth of cultural studies. Each of the chapters in this third edition has been extensively revised to include entirely new material, on such topics as the new historicism, Zizek, Bourdieu, Bakhtin, Deleuze and Guattari, queer theory , Black and Latino cultural studies, posthumanism and the Sokal affair. There are also new chapters on 'Cultural Studies and Cultural Theory' and on 'Cultural Criticism and Cultural Policy'.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vi
Cultural studies and cultural theory	1	(20)
Defining culture	2	(3)
Defining cultural studies	5	(5)
Cultural studies and cultural theory	10	(2)
Culture and society: anti-utilitarianism and modernity	12	(3)
Utilitarianism and its others	15	(6)
Literature and society: from culturalism to cultural materialism	21	(36)
German culturalism: hermeneutics and historicism	22	(3)
British culturalism: from Arnold to Leavis	25	(7)
The New Left: Thompson, Hoggart and Williams	32	(3)
Cultural materialism	35	(8)
New historicism	43	(5)
Cultural studies: from Hoggart to Hall	48	(9)
Critical theory: from ideology critique to the sociology of culture	57	(35)
Marx, Weber and Freud	58	(9)
Lukacs, Gramsci and the origins of western Marxism	67	(3)
The Frankfurt School	70	(7)
Habermas: from critical theory to the sociology of culture	77	(5)
Zizek: critical theory goes Lacanian	82	(4)
Bourdieu: from the sociology of culture to critical theory	86	(6)
Semiology: from structuralism to post-structuralism	92	(36)
Durkheim and Saussure	93	(5)
Russian Formalism: from Shklovsky to Bakhtin	98	(4)
High structuralism	102	(11)
Post-structuralism: deconstruction and genealogy	113	(8)
Post-structuralism: Lacan, Deleuze and Guattari	121	(7)
The cultural politics of difference	128	(36)
Sex, gender and sexuality	129	(10)
Nationalism, multiculturalism and postcolonialism	139	(13)
Race and ethnicity in black and Latino cultural studies	152	(12)
Postmodernism and cultural theory	164	(39)
Postmodernism, postmodernity and `postwar' late capitalism	165	(6)
Modernism, postmodernism and the popular	171	(4)
Celebrating postmodernism: Lyotard and Baudrillard	175	(4)
Postmodernism and the intelligentsia	179	(5)
Mapping postmodernism: Jameson	184	(6)
The politics of postmodernism	190	(8)
The illusions of postmodernism	198	(5)
Cultural criticism and cultural policy	203	(21)
Cultural studies and cultural criticism	205	(5)
Culture studies and cultural policy	210	(4)
From cultural criticism to cultural engineering	214	(3)
Cultural studies and cultural change	217	(4)
Criticism and globalisation	221	(3)
Glossary	224	(18)
Appendix: The institutionalisation of academic cultural studies	242	(3)
Bibliography	245	(20)
Index	265