Post-Marxism Versus Cultural Studies: Theory, Politics and Intervention
Edinburgh University Press | 2007 | ISBN: 0748617620 | Pages: 248 | PDF | 1 MB
Edinburgh University Press | 2007 | ISBN: 0748617620 | Pages: 248 | PDF | 1 MB
Post-Marxism versus Cultural Studies is an innovative exploration of the ethical and political significance of Cultural Studies and Post-Marxist discourse theory. It argues that although Cultural Studies and post-Marxism tend to present themselves as distinct entities, they actually share a project – that of taking on the political. Post-Marxism presents itself as having a developed theory of political strategy, while Cultural Studies has claimed to be both practical and political. Bowman examines these intertwined, overlapping, controversial and contested claims and orientations by way of a deconstructive reading that is led by the question of intervention: what is the intervention of post-Marxism, of Cultural Studies, of each into the other, and into other institutional and political contexts and scenes?