Cultural semantics : keywords of our time

Cultural semantics : keywords of our time /

A selection of Martin Jay's recent writings on contemporary thought and culture, this is a book about ideas that matter - and about why ideas matter. Borrowing from Flaubert's notion of a dictionary of "received ideas" and Raymond Williams's explorations of the "keyword...

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Main Author: Jay, Martin, 1944- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.
Series:Critical perspectives on modern culture
Subjects:
Semantics.
Language and culture.
Sémantique.
Langage et culture.
Semantiek.
Cultuur.
Kultur
Schlüsselwort.
Semantik
Kulturkritik
Sprachkritik
Aufsatzsammlung.
Table of Contents:
  • For theory
  • European intellectual history and the specter of multiculturalism
  • Songs of experience : reflections on the debate over Alltagsgeschichte
  • Experience without a subject : Walter Benjamin and the novel
  • The limits of limit-experience : Bataille and Foucault
  • No power to the Soviets
  • Who's afraid of Christa Wolf? Thoughts on the dynamics of cultural subversion
  • Postmodern fascism? Reflections on the return of the repressed
  • Educating the educators
  • The aesthetic alibi
  • Mimesis and mimetology : Adorno and Lacoue-Labarthe
  • The academic woman as performance artist
  • Abjection overruled
  • The uncanny nineties
  • Modernism and the specter of psychologism
  • Modern and postmodern paganism : Peter Gay and Jean-François Lyotard
  • The manacles of Gavrilo Princip.

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