Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
Introduction: The Territory of Marxism by Lawrence Grossberg and Cary Nelson......Page 12
PART I: RETHINKING THE CRISIS IN MARXISM......Page 25
Marxist Theory and the Specificity of Afro-American Oppression by Cornel West......Page 26
Discussion......Page 39
The Toad in the Garden: Thatcherism among the Theorists by Stuart Hall......Page 43
Discussion......Page 66
Toward a Leftist Cultural Politics: Remarks Occasioned by the Centenary of Marx's Death by Henri Lefebvre......Page 82
Hegemony and New Political Subjects: Toward a New Concept of Democracy by Chantal Mouffe......Page 96
Discussion......Page 109
Desire and Power: A Feminist Perspective by Catharine A. MacKinnon......Page 112
Discussion......Page 124
Marxism and Beyond: Strategies of Reterritorialization by Paul Patton......Page 129
Discussion......Page 143
In Defense of Political Economy and Systemic Analysis: A Critique of Prevailing Theoretical Approaches to the New Social Movements by A. Belden Fields......Page 146
PART II: TOWARD A CONTEMPORARY MARXISM......Page 162
The Vacillation of Ideology by Etienne Balibar......Page 163
What Is a Revival of Marxism and Why Do We Need One Today?: Centennial Lecture Commemorating the Death of Karl Marx by Oskar Negt......Page 214
Philosophy and Revolution: Twenty Sheaves of Questions by Gajo Petrovic......Page 238
Metaphor and Social Antagonisms by Ernesto Laclau......Page 252
Patriarchy, Domestic Mode of Production, Gender, and Class by Christine Delphy......Page 261
Discussion......Page 270
Can the Subaltern Speak? by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak......Page 272
PART III: THE POLITICS OF MODERNITY AND POSTMODERNITY......Page 315
Modernity and Revolution by Perry Anderson......Page 316
Discussion......Page 333
The Spell of Indecision by Franco Moretti......Page 338
Discussion......Page 344
Cognitive Mapping by Fredric Jameson......Page 346
Discussion......Page 357
The New Sentence and the Commodity Form: Recent American Writing by Andrew Ross......Page 360
Postmodernism as a "Structure of Feeling" by Fred Pfeil......Page 380
Schizoanalysis: The Postmodern Contextualization of Psychoanalysis by Eugene Holland......Page 403
PART IV: CULTURE, DOMINATION, AND RESISTANCE......Page 415
Women's Rage by Julia Lesage......Page 416
Can Industrial Culture Be a Culture of Difference: A Reflection on France's Confrontation with the U. S. Model of Serialized Cultural Production by Michele Mattelart......Page 426
The "New Song" and Its Confrontation in Latin America by Fernando Rayas Matta......Page 443
Art Ideology and Pop Practice by Simon Frith......Page 457
The Politics of Film: Discourse, Psychoanalysis, Ideology by Michael Ryan......Page 472
Class, Power, and Culture by Jack L. Amariglio, Stephen A. Resnick, and Richard D. Wolff......Page 482
Beyond Ethnocentrism: Gender, Power, and the Third-World Intelligentsia by Jean Franco......Page 497
PART V: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, POLITICS, AND ETHICS......Page 510
The Production of Scientific Knowledge: Science, Ideology, and Marxism by Stanley Aronowitz......Page 511
Discussion......Page 530
The Concept of the Philosophy of Praxis in the Quaderni of Antonio Gramsci by Sue Golding......Page 534
Marxism, Normative Theory, and Alienation by Richard Schacht......Page 555
Communications in Socialist France: The Difficulty of Matching Technology with Democracy by Armand Mattelart......Page 571
Contamination, Coincidence, and Collusion: Pop Music, Urban Culture, and the Avant-Garde by lain Chambers......Page 597
Discussion......Page 602
PART VI: THE POLITICS OF THEORY AND INTERPRETATION......Page 606
The Critic as Clown by Terry Eagleton......Page 607
Discourse: Structure or Event? by Michel Picheux......Page 620
The Book of Poems as a Social Act: Notes toward an Interpretation of Contemporary Hispanic American Poetry by Hugo Achugar......Page 638
Can People Be (Re)Presented in Fiction?: Toward a Theory of Narrative Agents and a Materialist Critique beyond Technocracy or Reductionism by Darko Suvin......Page 650
The Place of Aesthetics in Marxist Criticism by Michele Barrett......Page 684
Marxist Literary Criticism in China by Fengzhen Wang......Page 701
Notes on Contributors......Page 709
Index......Page 719