ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |31 pages
1 Introduction: The Death of “Art”
part |103 pages
I Against Modernist Cultural Theory
chapter |9 pages
2 So What's New? The Postmodern Paradox
chapter |53 pages
3 Critic As Star
chapter |9 pages
4 Opposites Detract: Sontag Versus Barthes For Barthes's Sake
part |51 pages
II Literature As Social Knowledge
part |61 pages
III Cultural Politics
chapter |19 pages
8 Reflections On Identity
chapter |8 pages
9 Birthrights
chapter |20 pages
10 Paulo Freire's Radical Democratic Humanism
chapter |12 pages
11 The Power of Positive Thinking: Jürgen Habermas In America
part |63 pages
IV Political Culture