Critique for What?: Cultural Studies, American Studies, Left Studies

by Joel Pfister

Students want to know: What does one do with critique? Fortunately, some of the most provocative self-critical intellectuals, from the postwar period to the postmodern present, have wrestled with this. Joel Pfister, in Critique for What?, criss-crosses the Atlantic to take stock of exciting British and US cultural studies, American studies, and Left studies that challenge the academic critique-for-critique's-sake and career's-sake business and ask:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594512264
• ISBN13: 9781594512261
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"