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Criticism and Politics - A Polemical Introduction (Hardcover)
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Criticism and Politics - A Polemical Introduction (Hardcover)
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An accessible introduction to cultural theory and an original
polemic about the purpose of criticism. What is criticism for? Over
the past few decades, impassioned disagreements over that question
in the academy have burst into the news media. These conflicts have
renewed the culture wars over the legacy of the 1960s, becoming
entangled in national politics and leading to a new set of
questions about critics and the power they do or don't wield.
Re-examining theorists from Matthew Arnold to Walter Benjamin, to
Fredric Jameson, Stuart Hall, and Hortense Spillers, Criticism and
Politics explores the animating contradictions that have long
propelled literary studies: between pronouncing judgment and
engaging in philosophical critique, between democracy and
expertise, between political commitment and aesthetic autonomy.
Both a leftist critic and a critic of the left, Robbins
unflinchingly defends criticism from those who might wish to
de-politicize it, arguing that working for change is not optional
for critics, but rather a core part of their job description.
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