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Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture by Cary Nelson, Lawrence Grossberg

Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture Cary Nelson, Lawrence Grossberg ebook
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Page: 738
Format: djvu
ISBN: 0252011082, 9780252011085

Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. Here These leading voices sometimes become organizational leaders, as they seemingly are best able to understand, explain, and interpret in writing real experience as abstractions. And how to reply to the familiar reproach: If you want to change and not just interpret the world, why not give up writing and become an organizer or activist? Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg (1988). This book attempts to do this when re-interpreting Marx from the problems of ideology taking into consideration the pieces of experience of the recent intellectual processes. "A major event in the discourse of cultural criticism of our time." -- Hayden White, author of Metahistory and Tropics of Discourse. There are essentially three claims presented in this single sentence: 1) Marxism is "scientifically grounded," 2) it combines both analysis and political action, and 3) it is a dynamic political, cultural, and theoretical "current" in the movement for democracy and working-class power. And this dominant pessimism about the capacity of culture to do the work of politics, occasionally relieved by a hesitant optimism, could be said to characterize the whole tradition of so-called Western Marxism to which Marcuse and the rest of the Frankfurt School belonged, many of whose unfinished projects .. Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, Ed. It seems to me that your questions arise out of a traditional Marxist interpretation of culture, in which a monopoly capital directly manifests itself in a monopoly culture. In the light of 20th century events, Gramsci firstly broke the chains of economicism in the Marxist interpretations and brougth with him the cultural approach to the theory. Cultural Materialism is an anthropological paradigm founded upon, but not constrained by, Marxist Materialistic thought.