Mastering Discourse: The Politics of Intellectual Culture - Couverture souple

Bové, Paul A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 082231245X ISBN 13 : 9780822312451

Editeur : Duke University Press, 1992

Synopsis

Mastering Discourse gathers and elaborates more than a decade of thought on the problems of the intellectual in contemporary society, by one of the most distinguished critics writing on these issues today. From Derrida and Foucault to Kristeva and Irigaray, Paul A. BovÉ looks at the practices of literary and cultural theory, and discusses the way theorists have produced their institutional positions and politics. Examining some of the major theories developed out of and in relation to the problems of discourse, BovÉ analyzes the limited successes and failures of these efforts.
Mastering Discourses offers an account of why "theory" fails to deal adequately with the politics of discursive cultures and warns that unless critics take much more seriously their own disciplinary inscriptions they will always reproduce structures of power and knowledge that they claim to oppose. Moreover, BovÉ argues, they will not fulfill the main role of the post-enlightenment intellectual, namely: to respond effectively to the present, through new theoretical and historical formulations that address the changing world of transnational capitalism and its neoliberal ideologies.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Paul A. BovÉ, Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, is the author of Intellectuals in Power, In the Wake of Theory, and Destructive Poetics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 082231245X
• ISBN 13: 9780822312451
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible