Cultural Studies and Political Theory / / ed. by Jodi Dean.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: A. Hozic, Aida,; A. Passavant, Paul,; Apostolidis, Paul,; Berlant, Lauren,; Cruikshank, Barbara,; Dean, Jodi,; E. Connolly, William,; Grant, Judith,; J. Shapiro, Michael,; L. Dumm, Thomas,; Lipsitz, George,; Reinhardt, Mark,; Shulman, George,; Stewart, Kathleen,; Wald, Priscilla,; Zerilli, Linda,
• HerausgeberIn: Dean, Jodi,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 5 halftones

This ambitious collection of work at the intersection of cultural studies and contemporary political theory brings together leading thinkers from both traditions. Challenging the terms that have shaped the last 20 years of culture wars, the essays in Cultural Studies and Political Theory reject the accusations of the right that everything is political and of the left that politics is everything. They respond with an alternative, with an exploration of processes of politicization and culturalization that asks, "what does it mean for something to be political?"In affirming that there are different answers to this question, the contributors to Cultural Studies and Political Theory expand definitions of politics in light of transformations in globally networked, consumer-driven, mediated technoculture. Comprehending the production of the political is crucial at a time when the political and the cultural can no longer be decoupled and when we cannot know in advance who "we" are. By gathering the work of theorists who are redefining approaches to politics and culture, Jodi Dean establishes a set of directives for theoretical work at a new crossroads.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: the interface of political theory and cultural studies -- I. Warring Maneuvers -- The will, capital punishment, and cultural war -- The subject of true feeling: pain, privacy, and politics -- Cultural politics: political theory and the foundations of democratic order -- Academic politics and social change -- II. Shifting Culture -- The song remains the same: communitarianism's cultural politics -- The governmentality of discussion -- The cultural turn in marxism -- Action or distraction? cultural studies in the united states -- III. Generating Politics -- Democracy and national fantasy: reflections on the statue of liberty -- Imagined immunities -- Race and the romance of american nationalism in martin luther king, norman mailer, and james baldwin -- Making of the unwanted colonies: (un}imagining desire -- IV. Haunting Affiliations -- Real american dreams (can be nightmares) -- Wild things -- The politics of the “family” -- Declarations of Independence -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index