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Contents

Acknowledgements vi

1 Cultural studies and cultural theory 1
Defining culture 2
Defining cultural studies 5
Cultural studies and cultural theory 10
Culture and society: anti-utilitarianism and modernity 12
Utilitarianism and its others 15
2 Literature and society: from culturalism to cultural
materialism 21
German culturalism: hermeneutics and historicism 22
British culturalism: from Arnold to Leavis 25
The New Left: Thompson, Hoggart and Williams 32
Cultural materialism 35
New historicism 43
Cultural studies: from Hoggart to Hall 48
3 Critical theory: from ideology critique to the sociology
of culture 57
Marx, Weber and Freud 58
Lukács, Gramsci and the origins of western Marxism 67
The Frankfurt School 70
Habermas: from critical theory to the sociology of
culture 77
Zizek: critical theory goes Lacanian 82
Bourdieu: from the sociology of culture to critical theory 86

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