{"product_id":"criticism-and-politics-a-polemical-introduction-hardback-9781503630192","title":"Criticism and Politics; A Polemical Introduction (Hardback) 9781503630192","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCriticism and Politics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Polemical Introduction\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBruce Robbins (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503630192\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 September 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Urgent, bracing, and powerfully argued, \u003ci\u003eCriticism and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e will be controversial in the best sense—inviting us all to debate the purposes and presumptions of criticism on newly articulated grounds.\"—Caroline Levine, Cornell University, author of \u003ci\u003eForms\u003c\/i\u003e \"This is a vivid, engaging, and engaged piece of literary criticism, as well as a vigorous defense of criticism as a method, by one of its foremost practitioners.\"—Martin Puchner, Harvard University, author of \u003ci\u003eLiterature for a Changing Planet\u003c\/i\u003e \"For those who have been looking for a book to address, head on, the complex connections between literary criticism and politics, this is that book.\"—Mark Greif, Stanford University, author of \u003ci\u003eAgainst Everything\u003c\/i\u003e \"This challenging, bold book helps answer the question of what critics are for. Highly recommended\"—S. J. Shaw, \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e \"There's much combined intellectual-governance work to do in criticism's pursuit of power within current systems of knowledge. The importance of Robbins's book is to show that this work is part of criticism's past—while also insisting that it must be central to its future.\"—Christopher Newfield, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \"[Robbins's] erudite discussion of different literary theorists and cultural critics (from Matthew Arnold to Judith Butler) makes the book an \u003ci\u003eintroduction\u003c\/i\u003e of a unique kind: it is a history of criticism very unlike the ones that merely summarize arguments about different modes of reading texts as made by the theorists from the angle of political standpoints. It is polemical in the sense that it does not shy away from taking sides with critics or positions, even demonstrating intelligent ways of reading them that show tremendous courage in raising difficult questions of literature and criticism, not subscribing to the idea that criticism-as-fault-finding is a less than noble activity.\"—Soni Wadhwa, \u003ci\u003eSouth Atlantic Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn accessible introduction to cultural theory and an original polemic about the purpose of criticism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat is criticism \u003ci\u003efor\u003c\/i\u003e? Over the past few decades, impassioned disagreements over that question in the academy have burst into the news media. These conflicts have renewed the culture wars over the legacy of the 1960s, becoming entangled in national politics and leading to a new set of questions about critics and the power they do or don't wield. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRe-examining theorists from Matthew Arnold to Walter Benjamin, to Fredric Jameson, Stuart Hall, and Hortense Spillers, \u003ci\u003eCriticism and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e explores the animating contradictions that have long propelled literary studies: between pronouncing judgment and engaging in philosophical critique, between democracy and expertise, between political commitment and aesthetic autonomy. Both a leftist critic and a critic of the left, Robbins unflinchingly defends criticism from those who might wish to de-politicize it, arguing that working for change is not optional for critics, but rather a core part of their job description. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e  1. Criticism in the Wake of the 1960s\u003cbr\u003e  2. Criticizing\u003cbr\u003e  3. Lost Centrality\u003cbr\u003e  4. Aesthetics and the Governing of Others\u003cbr\u003e  5. Grievances\u003cbr\u003e  6. The Historical and the Transhistorical\u003cbr\u003e  7. Cosmopolitical Criticism in Deep Time\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610636710168,"sku":"9781503630192","price":59.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/criticism-and-politics-a-polemical-introduction-hardback-9781503630192","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}