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

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 5 halftones
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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