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What is the relation of politics to theory? Theories make political claims, theorists make political critiques, and academics use theory in the pursuit of institutional ends: theory is not only "about" politics but is itself a political practice. Politics and theory, like high art and popular culture, are marked by a common dialectic: in Adorno's famous phrase, they bear the stigmata of capitalism - are torn halves of a system which doesn't add up. Robert Young's critique of the politics of theory shows how the dynamics of this schism are repeated in contemporary debates about historicism, psychoanalysis, racism, and the academic institution itself. In their dialectics of identity and difference, power and resistance, subversion and containment, north and south, centre and margin - the heart of contemporary political and theoretical debate - today's cultural theories themselves act out the torn halves of a conflictual culture. But, Young argues, if theory repeats the irreconcilable antagonisms of late capitalism, then it must also renew its politics of protest against diaspora, deprivation and despair.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Frontiers - theories of conflict: introduction - capitalism and theory; the dialectics of cultural criticism. Part 2 Borders - the culture of theory: back to Bakhtin (1985); poststructuralism - the improper name; the politics of "the politics of literary theory". Part 3 Badlands - psychoanalysis on the brink: the dangerous liaisons of psychoanalysis; history, racism, nation - and psychoanalysis. Part 4 Boundaries - the institution of culture: new historicism and the counter-culture; the idea of a chrestomathic university.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780719047770
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 138 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0719047773
  • Publisher Date: 14 Mar 1996
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Political Conflict in Literary and Cultural Theory


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