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Ideology and Inscription: 'Cultural Studies' after Benjamin, De Man, and Bakhtin
Tom Cohen questions the way history, ideology and politics are invoked in contemporary cultural studies. Enlisting the work of three seminal figures in literary theory—Walter Benjamin, Paul de Man, and M. Bakhtin—Cohen argues for a new politics of memory that moves beyond what he sees as our current paralyzing preoccupation with the present, and also for a new approach to the reading and analysis of cultural texts that breaks with the mimetic premises of traditional criticism.
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Ideology and Inscription: 'Cultural Studies' after Benjamin, De Man, and Bakhtin
Tom Cohen questions the way history, ideology and politics are invoked in contemporary cultural studies. Enlisting the work of three seminal figures in literary theory—Walter Benjamin, Paul de Man, and M. Bakhtin—Cohen argues for a new politics of memory that moves beyond what he sees as our current paralyzing preoccupation with the present, and also for a new approach to the reading and analysis of cultural texts that breaks with the mimetic premises of traditional criticism.
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Ideology and Inscription: 'Cultural Studies' after Benjamin, De Man, and Bakhtin

Ideology and Inscription: 'Cultural Studies' after Benjamin, De Man, and Bakhtin

by Tom Cohen
Ideology and Inscription: 'Cultural Studies' after Benjamin, De Man, and Bakhtin

Ideology and Inscription: 'Cultural Studies' after Benjamin, De Man, and Bakhtin

by Tom Cohen

Overview

Tom Cohen questions the way history, ideology and politics are invoked in contemporary cultural studies. Enlisting the work of three seminal figures in literary theory—Walter Benjamin, Paul de Man, and M. Bakhtin—Cohen argues for a new politics of memory that moves beyond what he sees as our current paralyzing preoccupation with the present, and also for a new approach to the reading and analysis of cultural texts that breaks with the mimetic premises of traditional criticism.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521590488
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/01/1998
Series: Literature, Culture, Theory , #27
Pages: 270
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.75(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: Webwork, or 'That spot is bewitched'; Part I. Ciphers - Or Counter-Genealogies for a Critical 'Present': 1. Reflections on post 'post-mortem de Man'; 2. The ideology of dialogue: the de Man/Bakhtin connection; 3. Mnemotechnics: time of the seance, or the Mimetic blind of 'cultural studies'; Part II. Expropriating 'Cinema' - Or, Hitchcock's Mimetic War: 4. Beyond 'the Gaze': Hitchcock, Zizek, and the ideological sublime; 5. Sabotaging the ocularist state; Part III. Tourings - Or, the Monadic Switchboard: 6. Echotourism: Nietzschean Cyborgs, Anthropophagy, and the rhetoric of science in cultural studies; 7. Altered states: stoned in Marseilles, or the addiction to reference; 8. Contretemps: notes, on contemporary 'travel'.
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