Adam Katz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3635091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Katz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Katz |
| SIGNATURE | KATZ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | a Quinnipiac University , 36 Mansfield Terrace, Middletown, CT 06457, USA E-mail |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Postmodernism And The Politics Of 'Culture'
Postmodernism and the Politics of 'Culture' is a comparative critical analysis of the political and intellectual ambitions of postmodernist critical theory and the academic discipline of cultural studies. Katz's polemical aim is to show that cultural studies comes up short in both areas, because its practitioners focus on too-narrow issues-primarily, celebrating the folkways of micro-communities-while denying the very possibility of studying, und…
There’s Difference and Then There’s Difference
A Little Direct Intervention by the Author is Called For
Postmodernism and the Politics of 'Culture
Postmodernism and the Politics of "Culture" is a sustained critique of contemporary cultural studies and its theoretical underpinnings. The book situates texts and arguments of cultural studies in relation to symptomatic critiques of leading post-modern theorists such as Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, and Baudrillard. Katz explains how the politics of resistance to closure has reduced cultural studies to a new form of liberalism. Furthermore, Postmo…
On 'Maelstroms Large and Small, Metaphorical and Actual'
This article examines the work of Primo Levi, with a focus on the tensions between ‘witness’ and ‘public intellectual’ in Levi's work. It analyses the notion of ‘gray zones’ in Levi's writings, where it functions as a way of indicating transformations in political action and public discourse in the wake of Auschwitz: most importantly, the Nazi genocide undermined the position of ‘spectator’ crucial to liberal discourse by implicating the spectato…
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On 'Maelstroms Large and Small, Metaphorical and Actual'
This article examines the work of Primo Levi, with a focus on the tensions between ‘witness’ and ‘public intellectual’ in Levi's work. It analyses the notion of ‘gray zones’ in Levi's writings, where it functions as a way of indicating transformations in political action and public discourse in the wake of Auschwitz: most importantly, the Nazi genocide undermined the position of ‘spectator’ crucial to liberal discourse by implicating the spectato…
Postmodernism and the Politics of 'Culture
Postmodernism and the Politics of "Culture" is a sustained critique of contemporary cultural studies and its theoretical underpinnings. The book situates texts and arguments of cultural studies in relation to symptomatic critiques of leading post-modern theorists such as Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, and Baudrillard. Katz explains how the politics of resistance to closure has reduced cultural studies to a new form of liberalism. Furthermore, Postmo…
A Little Direct Intervention by the Author is Called For
There’s Difference and Then There’s Difference
Postmodernism And The Politics Of 'Culture'
Postmodernism and the Politics of 'Culture' is a comparative critical analysis of the political and intellectual ambitions of postmodernist critical theory and the academic discipline of cultural studies. Katz's polemical aim is to show that cultural studies comes up short in both areas, because its practitioners focus on too-narrow issues-primarily, celebrating the folkways of micro-communities-while denying the very possibility of studying, und…
Epistemology (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Culture (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics and culture (2 works) · Postmodernism (2 works)