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The publication of Cultural Studies 1983 is a touchstone event in the history of Cultural
Studies and a testament to Stuart Hall's unparalleled contributions. The eight foundational
lectures Hall delivered at the University of Illinois in 1983 introduced North American
audiences to a thinker and discipline that would shift the course of critical scholarship.
Hall discusses the work of Richard Hoggart, Raymond Williams, and E. P. Thompson;
the influence of structuralism; the limitations and possibilities of Marxist theory;
and the importance of Althusser and Gramsci.
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From mobile phones to surveillance cameras, from fracking to genetically modified
food, we live in an age of intense debate about technology’s place in our culture.
Culture and Technology is an essential guide to that debate and its fascinating history.
Slack and Wise untangle and expose cultural assumptions that underlie our thinking
about technology, stories so deeply held we often don’t recognize their influence.
The book considers the perceived inevitability of technological progress, the role
of control and convenience, and the very sense of what technology is. Most important,
it builds an alternative, cultural studies approach for engaging technological culture,
one that considers politics, economics, space, time, identity, and change. After all,
what we think and what we do make a difference.
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Dana Van Kooy draws critical attention to Percy Bysshe Shelley as a dramatist and
argues that his dramas represent a critical paradigm of romanticism in which history
is 'staged'. Reading Shelley's dramas as a series of radical stages - historical reenactments
and theatrical reproductions - Van Kooy highlights the cultural significance of the
drama and the theatre in shaping and contesting constructions of both the sovereign
nation and the global empire in the post-Napoleonic era. It examines each of Shelley's
dramas as a specific radical stage that reformulates the familiar cultural performances
of war, revolution, slavery and domestic tyranny. Although Shelley's dramas are few
in number they engage a larger cultural project of aesthetic and political reform
that constituted a groundswell of activism that took place during the Romantic period.
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Examines and confronts Heidegger's hermeneutical approach to philosophy and the history
of philosophy. Heidegger's work, both early and late, has had a profound impact on
hermeneutics and hermeneutical philosophy. The essays in this volume are striking
in the way they exhibit the variety of perspectives on the development and role of
hermeneutics in Heidegger's work, allowing a multiplicity of views on the nature of
hermeneutics and hermeneutical philosophy to emerge. As Heidegger argues, the rigor
and strength of philosophy do not consist in the development of a univocal and universal
method, but in philosophy's ability to embrace—not just tolerate—the questioning of
its basic concepts. The essays in Hermeneutical Heidegger are exemplars of this kind
of rigor and strength.
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This book argues for a new reading of the political and ethical through the literatures
of Argentina, Chile, and Paraguay from 1970-2000. Carlos Amador reads a series of
examples from the last dictatorship and the current post-dictatorship period in the
Southern Cone, including works by Augusto Roa Bastos, Roberto Bolaño, Ceferino Reato,
Horacio Verbitsky, Nelly Richard, Diamela Eltit, and Willy Thayer, with the goal of
uncovering the logic behind their conceptions of belonging and rejection. Focusing
on theoretical concepts that make possible the formation of any and all communities,
this study works towards a vision of literature as essential to the structure of ethics.
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