Cultural Studies and Cultural Value - Hardcover

Frow, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198711271 ISBN 13: 9780198711278

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1995

Synopsis

This is a major critique of the important new discipline of cultural studies. Cultural studies have generally been organized around the opposition of high to low culture, but through careful readings of the work of Pierre Bourdieu, Michel de Certeau, Stuart Hall and Ernesto Laclau, John Frow undermines this assumption. He argues for a new orientation for cultural studies starting from a recognition of the complexity of the category of culture.

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Review

...astute and judicious unfolding of the problem of value in cultural studies. (Times Literary Studies)

lively and engrossing book ... Frow deftly exposes the weaknesses of relativism showing that it does not so much resolve as side-step the problem of value. (Times Higher Education Supplement)

Frow's argument, though conducted in rather forbidding prose, is frequently brilliant (Peter Schwendener, The American Scholar, Volume 65, No. 3, Summer 1996)

From the Back Cover

Cultural Studies and Cultural Value is a major critique of the important new discipline of cultural studies. 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. Intellectuals play the crucial role in the mediation of the cultural field, and their possession of cultural capital endows them with specific class interests which are distinct from those of the classes or groups for whom they claim to speak.

Edition details

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198711271
• ISBN 13: 9780198711278
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 199