Cultural Theory: The Key ThinkersAndrew Edgar, Peter Sedgwick Routledge, 28.07.2005 - 304 Seiten Featuring over eighty essays, Cultural Theory: The Key Thinkers is a seminal guide to the literary critics, sociologists, historians, artists, philosophers and writers who have shaped culture and society, and the way in which we view them. Ranging from Arnold to Le Corbusier, from Eco to Marx, the entries offer a lucid analysis of the work of influential figures in the study of cultural theory, making this the perfect introduction for the student and general reader alike. |
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... structure of their thoughts is determined by capitalism, the analyst can only work by recognising the ways in which capitalism has falsified and inhibited thought. The thinker strives for 'exact fantasy' that is at once disciplined by a ...
... structure of their thoughts is determined by capitalism, the analyst can only work by recognising the ways in which capitalism has falsified and inhibited thought. The thinker strives for 'exact fantasy' that is at once disciplined by a ...
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... structures. The autonomy of these structures is, however, seen as relative rather than absolute since, in the last instance, economic factors exert a causal influence over the structure as a whole. In turn, the traditional Marxist ...
... structures. The autonomy of these structures is, however, seen as relative rather than absolute since, in the last instance, economic factors exert a causal influence over the structure as a whole. In turn, the traditional Marxist ...
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... structures. This view lay at the heart of Althusser's anti-humanism. Whereas Marxists had traditionally argued that human beings are the authors of their own destinies, Althusser's contention was that individuals are an expression of ...
... structures. This view lay at the heart of Althusser's anti-humanism. Whereas Marxists had traditionally argued that human beings are the authors of their own destinies, Althusser's contention was that individuals are an expression of ...
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... structures of language and thought. It is, it follows, an ambivalent phenomenon which is closely affiliated with the world of officialdom, from which it offers temporary release. In his essay 'Speech Genres', Bakhtin (1986) examines the ...
... structures of language and thought. It is, it follows, an ambivalent phenomenon which is closely affiliated with the world of officialdom, from which it offers temporary release. In his essay 'Speech Genres', Bakhtin (1986) examines the ...
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... structural conventions that a story must obey, if, paradoxically, it is to appear to the reader as if it was unfolding, not according to a convention, but rather naturally (Barthes 1977b). In Mythologies, in particular, Barthes analyses ...
... structural conventions that a story must obey, if, paradoxically, it is to appear to the reader as if it was unfolding, not according to a convention, but rather naturally (Barthes 1977b). In Mythologies, in particular, Barthes analyses ...
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