Tony Bennett

Critical Trajectories

Culture, Society, Intellectuals

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 2005, representing issues of enduring concern in Bennett's work over this period and throughout his wide-ranging intellectual career. From cultural history to museums and memory, from Bond and popular culture to cultural policy and governance, Critical Trajectories charts the extensive influence of Bennett's thinking across the humanities and social sciences. Taking up some of the most critically important subjects on the cultural studies map - aesthetics, textuality, the intellectual, and the role of cultural history - Critical Trajectories offers a wonderful guide to the history of the discipline and traces Bennett's impressive intellectual journey. His introductory essay pinpoints his concerns in changing intellectual and political contexts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Stax Textbooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 175mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9781405156998
• ISBN-10: 1405156996
• Artikelnr.: 22961757

Autorenporträt

Tony Bennett is Professor of Sociology at the Open University, where he is a Director of the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-cultural Change jointly managed by the Open University and the University of Manchester, and a Professorial Fellow in the School of Culture and Communications at the University of Melbourne. Bennett's work encompasses sociology, cultural studies, museum theory, and cultural history.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

Part I: The literary and the aesthetic.

1. Severing the aesthetic connection.

2. Texts, readers and reading formations.

3. Figuring audiences and readers.

Part II: Culture, governance and the social.

4. Culture and governmentality.

5. Acting on the social: art, culture, and government.

Part III: Museums as civic machineries.

6. Archaeological autopsy: objectifying time and culturalgovernance.

7. Civic seeing: museums and the organisation of vision.

Part IV: Intellectuals, culture, politics.

8. Intellectuals, culture, policy: the technical, the practicaland the critical.

9. The historical universal: the role of cultural value in thehistorical sociology of Pierre Bourdieu.

Selected Bibliography.

References.

Index

Rezensionen

"Critical Trajectories provides an accessible andcompelling snapshot of many of Tony Bennett's most importantcontributions to defining a Foucauldean practice of culturalstudies. It is a valuable addition to any library of contemporarycultural studies! Lawrence Grossberg, Morris Davis DistinguishedProfessor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies,Co-editor, Cultural Studies

"Bennett's writing is as original and serious as it is unafraidto take up bold, sometimes controversial points of view. This bookprovides an excellent overview of his pathbreaking work on culture,power and government." Ien Ang, Distinguished Professor ofCultural Studies. University of Western Sydney

"More than just another 'best of' collection of scholarlyessays." M/C Reviews