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Title: Key Concepts in Cultural Theory by Andrew Edgar, Peter Sedgwick, Peter R. Sedgwick, Peter Sedgewick ISBN: 0-415-11403-9 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: August, 1999 Format: Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $96.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Flawed but useful
Comment: The idea is a great one: a handy dictionary of terms for the jargon-laden and often impenetrable vocabulary of cultural theory. Just what is the "Frankfurt School"? Can anyone please deconstruct "Deconstructionism"? What exactly is "punk" and do I need to understand "symbolic interactionism"?
Entries on these and other terms are helpful, and the book includes quite a few unexpected little essays on cinema, popular music, etc.
However, many of the entries fall victim to the same kind of jargoneering they purport to demystify; I must fault in particular the writing of one of the editors, Peter Sedgwick, whose entries are often obfuscatory or just plain badly written, e.g., in this description of "essentialism":
"Whether or not adoption of this view commits one to holding that these properties must exist in reality prior to the act of naming an object, so that a definition, if it is true is a priori true (see Lyotard's criticism of essentialism in "The Differend: Phrases in Dispute" (1988), Section 88) is perhaps an open question."
Whew! The editor needs an editor.
In all this is a helpful book (with a helpful index and bibliography as well), but sometimes suffers from the ills of its field.
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Title: Modernity: An Introduction to Modern Societies by Stuart Hall, David Held, Don Hubert, Kenneth Thompson ISBN: 155786716X Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: 01 February, 1996 List Price(USD): $50.95 |
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Title: Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian (Stanford, Calif.).) by Giorgio Agamben ISBN: 0804732183 Publisher: Stanford University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Culture in the Age of Three Worlds by Michael Denning ISBN: 1859844499 Publisher: Verso Pub. Date: 26 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Andreas Huyssen ISBN: 0804745617 Publisher: Stanford University Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (The Haymarket Series) by Michael Denning ISBN: 1859841708 Publisher: Verso Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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