Ideology and Inscription: 'Cultural Studies' After Benjamin, de Man, and Bakhtin

by Tom Cohen

Book Overview

In Ideology and Inscription 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 paralysing preoccupation with the present, and also for a new approach to the reading and analysis of cultural texts that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521599679
• ISBN13: 9780521599672
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"