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Cultural Studies and Cultural Value

Cultural Studies and Cultural Value

Frow, John

Paperback

Series: Cornell East Asia Series; 70

Literary CriticismAnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 019871128X
ISBN13: 9780198711285
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: May 18 1995
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.44 Depth: 8.42
Language: English
Cultural studies has generally organized itself around the opposition of high to low culture, reversing the traditional hierarchy of value, but leaving intact the polarity and the direct correlation of culture and class. Through detailed readings of the work of Pierre Bourieu, Michel de Certeau, Stuart Hall, and Ernesto Laclau, John Frow challenges this key assumption. He argues that the field of culture now has multiple centers and multiple domains of value and that these are irreducible to a single scale. Intellectuals play the crucial role in the mediation of the cultural field; their possession of cultural capital endows intellectuals with specific class interests which are distinct from those of the classes of groups for whom they claim to speak. Cultural Studies and Cultural Value seeks a revitalized and poststructuralist account of social class, a basis from which cultural studies can effect a much-needed reorientation.

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