What Is Cultural Criticism?

Two leading critics grapple with problems of literature, politics and intellectual practice In What Is Cultural Criticism?,...
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Author: Francis Mulhern
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What Is Cultural Criticism? by Mulhern, Francis

What Is Cultural Criticism?

BD$52.49

What Is Cultural Criticism?

BD$52.49
Author: Francis Mulhern
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Two leading critics grapple with problems of literature, politics and intellectual practice

In What Is Cultural Criticism?, two leading critics grapple with problems of literature, politics and intellectual practice. The debate opens with Francis Mulhern's account of what he terms 'metacultural discourse'. This embraces two opposing critical traditions, the elite pessimism of Kulturkritik and the populist enthusiasms of Cultural Studies. Each in its own way dissolves politics into culture, Mulhern argues. Collini, on the other hand, protests that cultural criticism provides resources for genuine critical engagement with contemporary society. Tension between culture and politics there may be, but it works productively in both directions.

This widely noticed encounter is that rare thing, a sustained debate in which, as Collini remarks, the protagonists not only exchange shots but also ideas. It concludes with Mulhern's engagement with Collini's writing on the subordination of universities to metrics and bureaucracy, and a companion rejoinder from Collini on Mulhern's study of the 'condition of culture novel' and his essays on questions of nationality and the politics of intellectuals.

Author: Francis Mulhern, Stefan Collini
Publisher: Verso
Published: 06/04/2024
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.58w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781804293379

About the Author
Francis Mulhern is Associate Editor of New Left Review and author of The Moment of 'Scrutiny', Culture/Metaculture and Figures of Catastrophe. His latest essay collection Into the Mêlée is newly published by Verso.

Stefan Collini is Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History and English Literature at the University of Cambridge. His books include, most recently, Common Writing, Speaking of Universities and The Nostalgic Imagination.

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