In these far-reaching essays, Stanley Aronvitz examines some of the crucial cultural shifts associated with the crisis of modernity and argues that art is a kind of social knowledge.
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION: THE DEATH OF ART; Part 1 I AGAINST MODERNIST
CULTURAL THEORY;
Chapter 2 SO WHAT'S NEW? THE POSTMODERN PARADOX;
Chapter 3
CRITIC AS STAR;
Chapter 4 OPPOSITES DETRACT: SONTAG VERSUS BARTHES FOR
BARTHES'S SAKE;
Chapter 5 THE TENSIONS OF CRITICAL THEORY: IS NEGATIVE
DIALECTICS ALL THERE IS?; Part 2 II LITERATURE AS SOCIAL KNOWLEDGE;
Chapter 6
LITERATURE AS SOCIAL KNOWLEDGE: MIKHAIL BAKHTIN AND THE REEMERGENCE OF THE
HUMAN SCIENCES;
Chapter 7 BETWEEN CRITICISM AND ETHNOGRAPHY: RAYMOND WILLIAMS
AND THE INTERVENTION OF CULTURAL STUDIES; Part 3 III CULTURAL POLITICS;
Chapter 8 REFLECTIONS ON IDENTITY;
Chapter 9 BIRTHRIGHTS;
Chapter 10 PAULO
FREIRE's RADICAL DEMOCRATIC HUMANISM;
Chapter 11 THE POWER OF POSITIVE
THINKING: JüRGEN HABERMAS IN AMERICA; Part 4 IV POLITICAL CULTURE;
Chapter 12
THE DECLINE OF AMERICAN LIBERALISM;
Chapter 13 PAST PERFECT;
Chapter 14
SEEING GREEN;
Chapter 15 IS DEMOCRACY POSSIBLE? THE DECLINE OF THE PUBLIC IN
THE AMERICAN DEBATE Index;
Stanley Aronowitz
