Description: Wars of Position : The Cultural Politics of Left and Right, Paperback by Brennan, Timothy, ISBN 0231137311, ISBN-13 9780231137317, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Taking stock of contemporary social, cultural, and political currents, Timothy Brennan explores key turning points in the recent history of American intellectual life.Wars of Position documents how alternative views were chased from the public stage by strategic acts of censorship, including within supposedly dissident wings of the humanities. He explores how the humanities entered the cultural and political mainstream and settled into an awkward secular religion of the "middle way." In a series of interrelated chapters, he considers narratives of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Clinton impeachment; reexamines Salman Rushdie's pre-fatwa writings to illuminate their radical social leanings; presents a startling new interpretation of Edward Said; looks at the fatal reception of Antonio Gramsci within postcolonial history and criticism; and offers a stinging critique of Hardt and Negri'sEmpire and the influence of Italian radicalism on contemporary cultural theory. Brennan challenges the conventional view that claims upon the state, or the public interest, have been rendered obsolete by the march of events in the years before and after Reagan. Instead, he lays out a new path for a future infused with a sense of intellectual and political responsibility.
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Book Title: Wars of Position : The Cultural Politics of Left and Right
Number of Pages: 360 Pages
Publication Name: Wars of Position : the Cultural Politics of Left and Right
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: United States / 20th Century, Public Policy / Cultural Policy, General, United States / General, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
Publication Year: 2007
Item Height: 0.1 in
Item Weight: 19 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Political Science, Education, History
Author: Timothy Brennan
Item Length: 0.9 in
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
