{"product_id":"cultural-semantics-keywords-of-our-time-paperback","title":"Cultural Semantics: Keywords of Our Time - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMartin Jay\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA selection of Martin Jay's recent writings on contemporary thought and culture, this is a book about ideas that matter-and about why ideas matter. Borrowing from Flaubert's notion of a dictionary of \"received ideas\" and Raymond Williams's explorations of the \"keywords\" of the modern age, Jay investigates some of the central concepts by which we currently organize our thoughts and lives. His topics range from \"theory\" and \"experience\" to the meaning of \"multiculturalism\" and the dynamics of cultural \"subversion.\" Among the thinkers he engages are Bataille and Foucault, Adorno and Lacoue-Labarthe, Walter Benjamin, Christa Wolf, and Jean-François Lyotard. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e By looking closely at what \"words do and perform,\" Jay makes us aware of the extent to which the language we use mediates and shapes our experience. By helping to distance us from much that we now take for granted, he makes it difficult for us to remain comfortably certain about what we think we know. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Elegantly written and richly insightful, this is a work of cultural criticism and intellectual analysis of the first order.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartin Jay is professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute for Social Research, 1923-195\u003c\/i\u003e0;\u003ci\u003e Marxism and Totality: The Adventures of a Concept from Lukács to Haberma\u003c\/i\u003es; and \u003ci\u003eDowncast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.03 x 9.27 x 6.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 07, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51801080299808,"sku":"9781558491168","price":59.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/bbdbe478365d8267c6d07136d499a396.webp?v=1780839099","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/cultural-semantics-keywords-of-our-time-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}