Ideology and Inscription
Ideology and Inscription
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GBPIn 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 breaks with the mimetic premises of traditional criticism. The book challenges many of the prevailing methodologies and assumptions of the contemporary critical scene and, through analyses of such topics as the rhetoric of science, ecological criticism, and the films of Hitchcock, demonstrates the subtlety and critical power of a more genuinely 'materialist' approach to a wide range of cultural texts.
- Links three seminal figures in theory, Bakhtin, Benjamin, and de Man
- Addresses the future of cultural studies
- Author is well-known figure on US theory circuit with glowing endorsements from major critics on back cover
Reviews & endorsements
'This book presents the most comprehensive and brilliant study of critical theory in our day. Tom Cohen writes in lucid, unrelenting prose of the repressed traumas that pervade most forms of contemporary thought.' Avital Ronell
'Cohen's brilliant study is a landmark book that presents in bold delineation the future directions of humanistic studies.' J. Hillis Miller
Product details
October 1998Paperback
9780521599672
270 pages
216 × 140 × 15 mm
0.35kg
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Table of Contents
- Introduction: Webwork, or 'That spot is bewitched'
- Part I. Ciphers - Or Counter-Genealogies for a Critical 'Present':
- 1. Reflections on post 'post-mortem de Man'
- 2. The ideology of dialogue: the de Man/Bakhtin connection
- 3. Mnemotechnics: time of the seance, or the Mimetic blind of 'cultural studies'
- Part II. Expropriating 'Cinema' - Or, Hitchcock's Mimetic War:
- 4. Beyond 'the Gaze': Hitchcock, Zizek, and the ideological sublime
- 5. Sabotaging the ocularist state
- Part III. Tourings - Or, the Monadic Switchboard:
- 6. Echotourism: Nietzschean Cyborgs, Anthropophagy, and the rhetoric of science in cultural studies
- 7. Altered states: stoned in Marseilles, or the addiction to reference
- 8. Contretemps: notes, on contemporary 'travel'.
