{"product_id":"cultural-theory-isbn-9781405180832","title":"Cultural Theory","description":"\u003ci\u003eCultural Theory: An Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of the essential readings that have shaped and defined the field of contemporary cultural theory  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e Features a historically diverse and methodologically concise collection of readings including rare essays such as   Pierre Bourdieu’s “Forms of Capital” (1986), Gilles Deleuze “Postscript on Societies of Control” (1992), and Fredric Jameson’s “Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture” (1979)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a radical new approach to teaching and studying cultural theory with material arranged around the central areas of inquiry in contemporary cultural study —the status and significance of culture itself, power, ideology, temporality, space and scale, and subjectivity\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSection introductions, designed to assist the student reader, provide an overview of each piece, explaining the context in which it was written and offering a brief intellectual biography of the author\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA large annotated   bibliography of primary and secondary works for each author and topic promotes further research and discussion\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures a useful glossary of critical terms\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 1 Reforming Culture 5\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Matthew Arnold, “Sweetness and Light” (1869) 12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Thorstein Veblen, “Conspicuous Consumption” (1899) 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Herbert Marcuse, “The Affirmative Character of Culture” (1937) 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception” (1944) 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Raymond Williams, “Culture Is Ordinary” (1958) 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Fredric Jameson, “Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture” (1979) 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Stuart Hall, “Notes on Deconstructing ‘the Popular’ ” (1981) 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Pierre Bourdieu, “The Forms of Capital” (1986) 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdditional Readings 94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2 Power 99\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Karl Marx, “Preface” to A Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy (1859) 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Carl Schmitt, “Definition of Sovereignty” (1922) 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Frantz Fanon, “The Trials and Tribulations of National Consciousness” (1961) 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Michel Foucault, “Society Must Be Defended, 17 March 1976” (1976) 124\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Michel Foucault, “Method” (1976) 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript on the Societies of Control” (1992) 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, “Biopolitical Production” (2000) 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdditional Readings 150\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 3 Ideology 155\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “The German Ideology” (1845) 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Georg Lukács, “Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat” (1923) 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Antonio Gramsci, “Hegemony” (1929) 188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Louis Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation)” (1970) 204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Stuart Hall, “Recent Developments in Theories of Language and Ideology: A Critical Note” (1980) 223\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Slavoj Žižek, “The Spectre of Ideology” (1989) 228\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdditional Readings 245\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 4 Space and Scale 249\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 251\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Dick Hebdige, “The Function of Subculture” (1979) 255\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Michel de Certeau, “Walking in the City” (1980) 264\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Benedict Anderson, “Imagined Communities” (1983) 274\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Arjun Appadurai, “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy” (1990) 282\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Doreen Massey, “Politics and Space\/Time” (1992) 296\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 David Harvey, “The Body as an Accumulation Strategy” (2000) 307\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Mike Davis, “Planet of Slums: Urban Involution and the Informal Proletariat” (2004) 318\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdditional Readings 332\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 5 Temporality 335\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 337\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Michel Foucault, “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History” (1977) 341\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Raymond Williams, “Dominant, Residual, and Emergent” (1977) 353\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Jean-François Lyotard, “Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?” (1979) 357\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Fernand Braudel, “History and the Social Sciences: The Longue Durée” (1980) 364\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Fredric Jameson, “Periodizing the 60s” (1984) 376\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 Roberto Schwarz, “Brazilian Culture: Nationalism by Elimination” (1992) 391\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Ranajit Guha, “A Dominance without Hegemony and Its Historiography” (1997) 401\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdditional Readings 412\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 6 Subjectivity 415\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 417\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 Frantz Fanon, “The Lived Experience of the Black Man” (1952) 422\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 Jacques Lacan, “The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason since Freud” (1957) 432\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38 Luce Irigaray, “This Sex Which Is Not One” (1977) 449\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39 Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto” (1985) 454\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40 Judith Butler, “Subjects of Sex\/Gender\/Desire” (1990) 472\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41 Paul Gilroy, “It Ain’t Where You’re From, It’s Where You’re At” (1990) 492\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42 Eve Sedgwick, “Axiomatic” (1990) 504\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdditional Readings 528\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary of Terms 531\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSources 538\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 541\u003c\/p\u003e  \"Even if it does not engage this question of the animal, Cultural Theory constitutes a valuable resource for scholars, as well as a springboard for fur¬ther discussion.\" (Snell Review, 2011)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eImre Szeman\u003c\/b\u003e is Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eZones of Instability: Literature, Postcolonialism and the Nation\u003c\/i\u003e (2003); co-author of \u003ci\u003ePopular Culture: A User's Guide\u003c\/i\u003e (2004, 2009); and co-editor of \u003ci\u003ePierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), the \u003ci\u003eJohns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCriticism\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), and \u003ci\u003eCanadian Cultural Studies: A Reader\u003c\/i\u003e (2009).  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimothy Kaposy\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor in the Cultural Studies Program at George Mason University, Virginia.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003ci\u003eCultural Theory: An Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e presents a comprehensive collection of the essential readings that have shaped and defined the field of contemporary cultural theory. The editors have selected readings from key theorists and authors, including Judith Butler, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault and Fredric Jameson, whose ideas remain most relevant to the analysis and study of culture today. The concepts discussed cross several disciplines, with sections covering subjects such as power, ideology, the organization of space and time, and the production of subjectivity. The readings presented in this carefully chosen compilation reflect the most influential ideas that have emerged in each of these areas -- ideas that have been put to use in myriad ways in the study and critical assessment of modern culture.  \u003cp\u003eBrief introductions to each thematically-linked section summarize the readings and their context, making the anthology accessible to the student reader as well as to faculty and researchers.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"This anthology is an extraordinarily useful toolbox for teaching cultural theory.  But more than that, by organizing the texts around a series of core concepts, it not only provides students with an excellent introduction but also gives scholars a fresh perspective on the field.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eMichael Hardt\u003c\/b\u003e, Duke University  \u003cp\u003e“Cultural theory has expanded its influence immensely over the past two decades. Now we have a comprehensive selection of the best and most influential writers in the field, ably compiled and introduced by expert editors.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eToby Miller\u003c\/b\u003e, University of California, Riverside\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“The introductory chapters for each section are uniformly cogent and well written, and the choices of material are judicious and at times refreshingly unexpected. \u003ci\u003eCultural Theory: An Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e is set to become the standard classroom text in the field.”\u003cbr\u003e — \u003cb\u003eNicholas Lawrence\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Warwick\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Essential reading for all students of culture, whatever their disciplinary background.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eNick Couldry\u003c\/b\u003e, Goldsmiths, University of London\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989013545189,"sku":"NP9781405180832","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405180832.jpg?v=1761782434","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/cultural-theory-isbn-9781405180832","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}