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In this account of some of the central concepts in modern life and thought, Professor Jay investigates how language cannot fail to change and mediate experience. The topics he treats range from theory and experience to the meaning of multiculturalism and the dynamic of cultural subversion, and among the thinkers he engages are Bataille, Foucault, Adorno, Walter Benjamin and Lyotard.
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Cultural Semantics : Keywords of Our Time Critical Perspectives On Modern Culture
author
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Jay, Martin.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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1558491155
print isbn13
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9781558491151
ebook isbn13
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9780585083735
language
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English
subject
Semantics, Language and culture.
publication date
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1998
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P325.J34 1998eb
ddc
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401/.43
subject
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Semantics, Language and culture.
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CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON MODERN CULTURE
A series edited by David Gross, University of Colorado at Boulder and William M. Johnston, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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Cultural Semantics
Keywords of Our Time
Martin Jay
University of Massachusetts Press Amherst
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Copyright 1998 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 97-37563 ISBN 1-55849-115-5 (cloth); 116-3 (pbk.) Designed by Mary Mendell Set in Quadrat by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed and bound by Braun-Brumfield, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Jay, Martin, 1944 Cultural semantics : keywords of our time / Martin Jay. p. cm. (Critical perspectives on modern culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-55849-115-5 (cloth: alk. paper). ISBN 1-55849-116-3 (pbk. alk. paper) 1. Semantics. 2. Language and culture. I. Title. II. Series. P325.J34 1998 401'.43-dc21 97-37563CIP British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
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FOR SHANA AND NED
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
1
1 For Theory
15
2 European Intellectual History and the Specter of Multiculturalism
31
3 Songs of Experience: Reflections on the Debate over Alltagsgeschichte
37
4 Experience without a Subject: Walter Benjamin and the Novel
47
5 The Limits of Limit-Experience: Bataille and Foucault
62
6 No Power to the Soviets
79
7 Who's Afraid of Christa Wolf? Thoughts on the Dynamics of Cultural Subversion
85
8 Postmodern Fascism? Reflections on the Return of the Repressed
94
9 Educating the Educators
102
10 The Aesthetic Alibi
109
11 Mimesis and Mimetology: Adorno and Lacoue-Labarthe
120
12 The Academic Woman as Performance Artist
138
13 Abjection Overruled
144
14 The Uncanny Nineties
157
15 Modernism and the Specter of Psychologism
165
16 Modern and Postmodern Paganism: Peter Gay and Jean-Franois Lyotard
181
17 The Manacles of Gavrilo Princip
197
Notes
205
Index
251
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Acknowledgments
In one of its many meanings, "to acknowledge" implies the reluctant disclosure of something that might have been kept secret (acknowledging responsibility, for example, for a long-denied child). If this were the only acceptation of the word, then even the most apparently generous of scholarly acknowledgments would betray a covert aversion to admitting how dependent the author really is on those he thanks. But luckily semantic play is such that "acknowledgment" can also imply a strong and emphatic avowal of a truth worth affirming in public. It is solely in the latter spirit that I want now to disclose for all to see the advice, support, and sustenance of the people and institutions who made this book possible (anyone I've forgotten should take solace in the thought that I may be still too guilt-ridden to fess up to all of my debts).
First, let me express my gratitude to the journals and collections in which many of these essays first appeared: chapter 1 in Theory and Society; chapter 4 in Leviathan (Athens); New Formations and Rediscovering History: Cultural Politics, and the Psyche, ed. Michael S. Roth (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994); chapter 5 in Constellations and Georges Bataille, ed. Denis Hollier (Paris, Belin, 1995); chapter 8 in Tikkun; chapter 11 in Auge und Affekt: Wahrnehmung und Interaktion, ed. Gertrud Koch (Frankfurt: Fischer, 1995) and The Semblance of Subjectivity: Adorno's Aesthetic Theory, ed. Tom Huhn and Lambert Zuidervaart (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997); chapter 15 in
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