Orville Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3998672 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Orville Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Orville |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE O |
| AFFILIATIONS | New School |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Time and Memory in Reggae Music
Desire for Race
Desire for Race
Introduction 1. American sociology 2. Marxism 3. British social anthropology 4. British cultural studies 5. Intermediate reflections on essentialism 6. Belief and social action 7. Theorizing the racial ensemble 8. The politics of memory and race 9. Desire Conclusion
Legal Weapons for the Weak? Democratizing the Force of Words in an Uncivil Society
First Amendment absolutists and proponents of speech regulation are locked in a normative stalemate over the best way to diminish racial “hate speech.” I argue that this stalemate can be overcome by considering a more expansive theory of the “force of words” and the risks the right of free speech entails for individuals. Drawing on a cultural theory of symbolic power, I discuss the merits and limitations of two recent texts which redefine hate sp…
Classifying Acts
Culture and Democratic Theory
German Nationalism and Religious Conflict
The German Empire of 1871, although unified politically, remained deeply divided along religious lines. In German Nationalism and Religious Conflict, Helmut Walser Smith offers the first social, cultural, and political history of this division. He argues that Protestants and Catholics lived in different worlds, separated by an "invisible boundary" of culture, defined as a community of meaning. As these worlds came into contact, they also came int…
Metacritique of Non-Criticism
Critical Theory's relation to Left social movements has been ambiguous from the very beginning. The original disenchantment with socialism was extended to the whole Enlightenment project. Its objective was to understand the relation of reason and regression in modernity; the fetish of scientific means over rational ends to satisfy human needs by eradicating all humanity; and the culture industry as extending on all levels the logic of existing so…
Culture and Democratic Theory
Legal Weapons for the Weak? Democratizing the Force of Words in an Uncivil Society
First Amendment absolutists and proponents of speech regulation are locked in a normative stalemate over the best way to diminish racial “hate speech.” I argue that this stalemate can be overcome by considering a more expansive theory of the “force of words” and the risks the right of free speech entails for individuals. Drawing on a cultural theory of symbolic power, I discuss the merits and limitations of two recent texts which redefine hate sp…
Classifying Acts
Metacritique of Non-Criticism
Critical Theory's relation to Left social movements has been ambiguous from the very beginning. The original disenchantment with socialism was extended to the whole Enlightenment project. Its objective was to understand the relation of reason and regression in modernity; the fetish of scientific means over rational ends to satisfy human needs by eradicating all humanity; and the culture industry as extending on all levels the logic of existing so…
German Nationalism and Religious Conflict
The German Empire of 1871, although unified politically, remained deeply divided along religious lines. In German Nationalism and Religious Conflict, Helmut Walser Smith offers the first social, cultural, and political history of this division. He argues that Protestants and Catholics lived in different worlds, separated by an "invisible boundary" of culture, defined as a community of meaning. As these worlds came into contact, they also came int…
Culture and Democratic Theory
Legal Weapons for the Weak? Democratizing the Force of Words in an Uncivil Society
First Amendment absolutists and proponents of speech regulation are locked in a normative stalemate over the best way to diminish racial “hate speech.” I argue that this stalemate can be overcome by considering a more expansive theory of the “force of words” and the risks the right of free speech entails for individuals. Drawing on a cultural theory of symbolic power, I discuss the merits and limitations of two recent texts which redefine hate sp…
Classifying Acts
Desire for Race
Introduction 1. American sociology 2. Marxism 3. British social anthropology 4. British cultural studies 5. Intermediate reflections on essentialism 6. Belief and social action 7. Theorizing the racial ensemble 8. The politics of memory and race 9. Desire Conclusion
Desire for Race
Time and Memory in Reggae Music
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