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13 produkter
Shape of the Signifier
1967 to the End of History
Häftad, 2006
369 kr
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The Shape of the Signifier is a critique of recent theory--primarily literary but also cultural and political. Bringing together previously unconnected strands of Michaels's thought--from "Against Theory" to Our America--it anatomizes what's fundamentally at stake when we think of literature in …
No Politics But Class Politics
Av Walter Benn Michaels, Adolph Reed Jr. m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
261 kr
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Denouncing racism and celebrating diversity have become central to progressive politics. For many on the left, it seems, social justice would consist of an equitable distribution of wealth, power and esteem among racial groups. But as Adolph Reed Jr. and Walter Benn Michaels argue in this incisive …
Beauty of a Social Problem
Photography, Autonomy, Economy
Inbunden, 2015
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
871 kr
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Bertolt Brecht once worried that our sympathy for the victims of a social problem can make the problem's "beauty and attraction" invisible. In The Beauty of a Social Problem, Walter Benn Michaels explores the effort to overcome this difficulty through a study of several contemporary …
Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism
American Literature at the Turn of the Century
Häftad, 1988
460 kr
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"The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism" discusses ways of creating value in turn-of-the-century American capitalism. Focusing on such topics as the alienation of property, the invention of masochism, and the battle over free silver, it examines the participation of cultural forms in these …
Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism
American Literature at the Turn of the Century
E-bok, 1987
538 kr
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The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism discusses ways of creating value in turn-of-the-century American capitalism. Focusing on such topics as the alienation of property, the invention of masochism, and the battle over free silver, it examines the participation of cultural forms in these …
American Renaissance Reconsidered
Av Walter Benn Michaels, Donald E. Pease
Häftad, 1989
439 kr
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The term American Renaissance designates a period in our nation's history when the literary "classics" appeared-works "original" enough to mark a beginning for America's literary history. But the American Renaissance, Donald Pease argues in his introduction, does not belong to the nation's secular …
Our America
Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism
Häftad, 1997
343 kr
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Arguing that the contemporary commitment to the importance of cultural identity has renovated rather than replaced an earlier commitment to racial identity, Walter Benn Michaels asserts that the idea of culture, far from constituting a challenge to racism, is actually a form of racism. Our America …
Our America
Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism
E-bok, 1995
520 kr
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Arguing that the contemporary commitment to the importance of cultural identity has renovated rather than replaced an earlier commitment to racial identity, Walter Benn Michaels asserts that the idea of culture, far from constituting a challenge to racism, is actually a form of racism. Our America …
The Trouble with Diversity
How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality
Häftad, 2016
258 kr
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Shape of the Signifier
1967 to the End of History
E-bok, 2013
492 kr
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The Shape of the Signifier is a critique of recent theory--primarily literary but also cultural and political. Bringing together previously unconnected strands of Michaels''s thought--from "Against Theory" to Our America --it anatomizes what''s fundamentally at stake when we think of literature in …
No Politics but Class Politics
Av Adolph Reed, Walter Benn Michaels
Inbunden, 2023
1194 kr
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Der Trubel um Diversität
Wie wir lernten, Identitäten zu lieben und Ungleichheit zu ignorieren
Av Christoph Hesse, Walter Benn Michaels
E-bok, 2021
212 kr
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Gefeiert als »eloquent« (Chicago Tribune) und »stichhaltig« (The New Yorker), verströmt das Buch »einen Hauch von Genialität« (The Economist) und macht es unmöglich, mit den Thesen von Walter Benn Michaels »nicht übereinzustimmen« (The Washington Post). Michaels behauptet in »Der Trubel um …
Beauty of a Social Problem
Photography, Autonomy, Economy
Häftad, 2016
248 kr
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Bertolt Brecht once worried that our sympathy for the victims of a social problem can make the problem's "beauty and attraction" invisible. In The Beauty of a Social Problem, Walter Benn Michaels explores the effort to overcome this difficulty through a study of several contemporary …
