Critique and Social Transformation. Lessons From Antonio Gramsci, Mikhail Bakhtin and Raymond Williams
| Author: | San Juan, Jr., E. | |
| Year: | 2009 | |
| Pages: | 312 | |
| ISBN: | 0-7734-4778-4 978-0-7734-4778-3 | |
| Price: | $219.95 + shipping | |
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This scholarly work is a project of historical-materialist critique of themes, theories, and arguments in contemporary cultural politics. It examines the contradictory actualities and potential of a class-conflicted world system from the radical perspectives of Antonio Gramsci, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Raymond Williams. It endeavors to forge a transformative praxis useful for understanding the current crisis of global capitalism.
Reviews
“As both nuanced scholarship and rigorous critical practice, San Juan’s work is a brilliant example of how a subaltern activist inhabiting the beleaguered zones of the Empire can not only speak against injustice and racist barbarism, but also write in a militantly engaged, provocative way on behalf of the satisfaction of human needs through popular, democratic, egalitarian governance. Our task is to acknowledge this example by word and deed.”
– Prof. Peter McLaren, University of California at Los Angeles
– Prof. Peter McLaren, University of California at Los Angeles
Table of Contents
Foreword by Peter McLaren
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Antonio Gramsci: Inventory and Extrapolation
2. Surrealism: Avant-garde Weapon for People’s War
3. In Quest of Materialist Dialectics
4. National-Popular Strategy Toward Socialism
5. Bakhtin/Gramsci: Alternative Interventions
6. National Liberation Vernaculars
7. From Postcolonial Idealism to Cultural Materialism
8. Raymond Williams: Theorizing Cultural Studies
9. The Project of Cultural Revolution
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Antonio Gramsci: Inventory and Extrapolation
2. Surrealism: Avant-garde Weapon for People’s War
3. In Quest of Materialist Dialectics
4. National-Popular Strategy Toward Socialism
5. Bakhtin/Gramsci: Alternative Interventions
6. National Liberation Vernaculars
7. From Postcolonial Idealism to Cultural Materialism
8. Raymond Williams: Theorizing Cultural Studies
9. The Project of Cultural Revolution
Afterword
Bibliography
Index