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 | | Ideology and Inscription: 'Cultural Studies' after Benjamin, De Man, and Bakhtin (Literature, Culture, Theory) by Tom Cohen ISBN-10: 0521590485 ISBN-10: 0-521-59048-5 ISBN-13: 9780521590488 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-59048-8 Hardcover 1998-10-13 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Book Description Tom Cohen questions the way history, ideology and politics are invoked in contemporary cultural studies. Enlisting the work of three seminal figures in literary theory--Walter Benjamin, Paul de Man, and M. Bakhtin--Cohen argues for a new politics of memory that moves beyond what he sees as our current paralyzing preoccupation with the present, and also for a new approach to the reading and analysis of cultural texts that breaks with the mimetic premises of traditional criticism. | ||
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Pleased and excited I was amazed at the rigorous critical writing Cohen manages to pull off here - hardly a single lapse into habitual patterns of thought, traditional categories, or cliched critical strategies. This book not only truly floored me - that someone is still this committed to radical thought inspires me to no end - but will serve as a boon to any 'movement' that needs a fix of theory, from women's lib to nomadic ecopolitics. | ||
First-rate work "Ideology and Inscription" is a cutting-edge, startling work by a deeply thoughtful author. It has left me to wonder why Professor Cohen's work has not attained the celebrity status that much less adept theorists in the field have reached. His is one of the few truly innovative critical voices in a post-deconstruction era. | ||