| The Task of Cultural Critique Contributor(s): Ebert, Teresa L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252076265 ISBN-13: 9780252076268 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $26.73 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2009 Annotation: A bold and compelling remapping of contemporary cultural critique |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Literary Criticism - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory |
| Dewey: 306.07 |
| LCCN: 2009009426 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.75 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this study, Teresa L. Ebert makes a spirited, pioneering case for a new cultural critique committed to the struggles for human freedom and global equality. Demonstrating the implosion of the linguistic turn that isolates culture from historical processes, The Task of Cultural Critique maps the contours of an emerging materialist critique that contributes toward a critical social and cultural consciousness. Through groundbreaking analyses of cultural texts, Ebert questions the contemporary Derridian dogma that asserts ""the future belongs to ghosts."" Events-to-come are not spectral, she contends, but the material outcome of global class struggles. Not ""hauntology"" but history produces cultural practices and their conflictive representations--from sexuality, war, and consumption to democracy, torture, globalization, and absolute otherness. With close readings of texts from Proust and Balzac to ""Chick Lit,"" from Lukács, de Man, Deleuze, and Marx to Derrida, Zizek, Butler, Kollontai, and Agamben, the book opens up new directions for cultural critique today. |