Grossberg Cultural Studies in the Future Tense

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9331-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 370 Seiten

One of the leading figures in cultural studies offers a powerful critique of the present state of the field and, more broadly, of the intellectual left, especially in the Anglo-American academy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grossberg, Lawrence

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Thanks xi

Introduction. We All Want to Change the World 1

1. The Heart of Cultural Studies 7

2. Constructing the Conjuncture: Struggling over Modernity 57

3. Considering Value: Rescuing Economics from Economists 101

4. Contextualizing Culture: Mediation, Signification, and Significance 169

5. Complicating Power: The "And" of Politics, and. 227

6. In Search of Modernities 259

Notes 295

Bibliography 329

Index 351

Über Autor(innen)

Lawrence Grossberg is the Morris Davis Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies, and Adjunct Distinguished Professor of American Studies, Anthropology, and Geography at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of many books, including Caught in the Crossfire: Kids, Politics, and America’s Future, Bringing it all Back Home: Essays on Cultural Studies, and Dancing in Spite of Myself: Essays on Popular Culture (the last two both also published by Duke University Press). He is a co-editor of collections including About Raymond Williams, New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society, Without Guarantees: Essays in Honor of Stuart Hall, Cultural Studies, and Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. He is a co-editor of the journal Cultural Studies.