Critical trajectories : culture, society, intellectuals

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Title:

Critical trajectories : culture, society, intellectuals

Author:

Bennett, Tony, 1947-

ISBN:

9781405156981

9781405156998

Personal Author:

Bennett, Tony, 1947-

Publication Information:

Oxford : Blackwell, 2007.

Physical Description:

ix, 207 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

Introduction -- Severing the aesthetic connection -- Texts, readers, and reading formations -- Figuring audiences and readers -- Culture and governmentality -- Acting on the social : art, culture, and government -- Archaeological autopsy : objectifying time and cultural governance -- Civic seeing : museums and the organisation of vision -- Intellectuals, culture, policy : the technical, the practical, and the critical -- The historical universal : the role of cultural value in the historical sociology of Pierre Bourdieu.

Abstract:

Brings together for the first time writings from one of the leading figures in cultural studies - Tony Bennett. The sections in this volume span the period from the late 1970s to the present, representing issues of enduring concern in Bennett's work over this period and throughout his wide rangining intellectual career.

Subject Term:

Culture -- Study and teaching.

Electronic Access:

Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0802/2007010759-b.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0802/2007010759-d.html
Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0713/2007010759.html

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Critical Trajectories: Culture, Society, Intellectuals brings together for the first time writings from one of the leading figures in cultural studies -- Tony Bennett. The selections in the volume span the period from the late 1970s to the present, representing issues of enduring concern in Bennett's work over this period and throughout his wide-ranging intellectual career.

Charts the extensive influence of Bennett's thinking across the humanities and social sciences - from cultural history to museums and memory, and from Bond and popular culture to cultural policy and governance
Tackles some of the most important subjects in cultural studies, including aesthetics, textuality, the intellectual, and the role of cultural history
Includes a new introductory essay pinpointing Bennett's concerns in changing intellectual and political contexts