Page 6 - Contemporary Cultural Theory

CONTENTS

Acknowledgement vii
INTRODUCTION
The rise of cultural theory 1

1 UTILITARIANISM 8
The cultural contradictions of utilitarianism 8
Utilitarian culture and capitalist civilization 13

2 CULTURALISM 20
Matthew Arnold 22
The rise of English studies 24
T.S.Eliot 26
F.R.Leavis 29
Leavisism as a professional ideology 32
Left culturalism 36
Left culturalism and British cultural studies 40
Nationalism and culture 41

3 MARXISM 48
Classical Marxism 50
Second and Third International Marxism 54
British communist Marxism 57
German sociology 59
Western Marxism 62
The New Left: from structural Marxism to
cultural materialism 68

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