Postmodernism and the Politics of 'Culture' is a comparative
critical analysis of the political and intellectual ambitions of
postmodernist critical theory and the academic discipline of
cultural studies. Katz's polemical aim is to show that cultural
studies comes up short in both areas, because its practitioners
focus on too-narrow issues-primarily, celebrating the folkways of
micro-communities-while denying the very possibility of studying,
understanding, and changing society in any comprehensive way and to
any universally beneficial purpose. He argues that scholars and
activists alike would do well to make use of the analytical tools
of postmodernist critical theory, whose practitioners acknowledge
the political significance of the differences between social
groups, but do not consider them to be unbridgeable, and so seek to
develop a set of practices for creating a truly inclusive, truly
democratic public sphere.
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