From Class Struggle to the Politics of Pleasure - The Effects of Gramscianism on Cultural Studies (Hardcover)

"From Class Struggle to the Politics of Pleasure" arises from reading and teaching Gramscian work in cultural studies, education, media studies, leisure and politics over the last twenty years. It argues that Gramscian work is undoubtedly powerful and persuasive. Indeed by the 1990s one can almost say that it has become the governing orthodoxy. Harris reads the work critically and in detail, tracing arguments across time and across different specialisms, assessing them, and trying to examine how they deal with critics and with challenging topics. He maintains that cultural studies contains many absences, silences and closures, and that it deploys a number of narrative techniques to remain credible.
Wide-ranging and critical, "From Class Struggle to the Politics of Pleasure" is an ideal critical assessment of one of the most fashionable and powerful intellectual traditions in contemporary social science. This book will help students to critically read Gramscian work and decide where its strengths and weaknesses lie for themselves, making them less dependent on the Gramscians' own accounts and agendas.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 1992
First published:	1992
Authors:	David Harris
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	242
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-06223-7
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-415-06223-3
Barcode:	9780415062237

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