What Is Cultural Criticism?
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1804293377
ISBN-13
9781804293379
Publisher
Verso Books
Imprint
Verso Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 4th, 2024
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
208 grams
Dimensions
20.90 x 14.00 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification:
Literature: history & criticismCultural studiesSociology
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Two leading critics grapple with problems of literature, politics and intellectual practice.
In <i>What Is Cultural Criticism?</i>, two leading critics grapple with problems of literature, politics and intellectual practice. The debate opens with Francis Mulhern’s account of what he terms ‘metacultural discourse’. This embraces two opposing critical traditions, the elite pessimism of Kulturkritik and the populist enthusiasms of Cultural Studies. Each in its own way dissolves politics into culture, Mulhern argues. Collini, on the other hand, protests that cultural criticism provides resources for genuine critical engagement with contemporary society. Tension between culture and politics there may be, but it works productively in both directions.<br><br>This widely noticed encounter is that rare thing, a sustained debate in which, as Collini remarks, the protagonists not only exchange shots but also ideas. It concludes with Mulhern’s engagement with Collini’s writing on the subordination of universities to metrics and bureaucracy, and a companion rejoinder from Collini on Mulhern’s study of the ‘condition of culture novel’ and his essays on questions of nationality and the politics of intellectuals.
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