The Abyss of Representation : Marxism and the Postmodern Sublime PDF
by Hartley George Hartley
Part of the Post-Contemporary Interventions series
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Hartley describes how modern theory from Kant through Lacan attempts to come to terms with the sublime limits of representation and how ideas developed with the Marxist tradition-such as Marx's theory of value, Althusser's theory of structural causality, or Zizek's theory of ideological enjoyment-can be seen as variants of the sublime object. Representation, he argues, is ultimately a political problem. Whether that problem be a Marxist representation of global capitalism, a deconstructive representation of subaltern women, or a Chicano self-representation opposing Anglo-American images of Mexican Americans, it is only through this grappling with the negative, Hartley explains, that a Marxist theory of postmodernism can begin to address the challenges of global capitalism and resurgent imperialism.
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- Pages:354 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:16/07/2003
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- ISBN:9780822384557
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:354 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:16/07/2003
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- ISBN:9780822384557