Synopsis
This is a new edition of the much neglected 1967 breakthrough analysis of behavior and the arts. Cultural criticism has been too obsessed with the rage for order to be able to grasp the import of Peckham's search for "some human activity, which serves to break up orientations, to weaken and frustrate the tyrannous drive to order, to prepare the individual to observe what the orientation tells him is irrelevant, but what may every be relevant." This book is destined to force a sharp turn in critical cultural studies because it addresses the rage for chaos in traditional "high culture," not just in popular culture.
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Review
"It is time to rescue cultural studies and aesthetic theory from its long flight from social activism. Peckham is the right place to start..." -- Robert Merrill, professor and associate dean, Maryland Institute, College of Art
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