"Hogan's penetrating study of ideology and cultural institutions, moral judgment, and political commitment is a welcome contribution to the lively current debate on these topics. His carefully reasoned critique of influential 'post-structural' tendencies is developed in the context of an independent libertarian perspective, informed by a sympathetic understanding for the vital human concerns that are at stake, and the intellectual issues that are being confronted, or sometimes evaded."--Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Formidably armed with statistics, intelligence, a relentless philosophical method....Hogan makes an excellent case that the world is a very real place which we can touch and shape with both our hands and our pens. If the world is a text, it is a text which is written by men and women, and by men and women who must take individual responsibility for what they write."--Times Higher Education Supplement "The Politics of Interpretation can be read as a fascinating proposal for the use of literary criticism as a new form of political dissent. To Professor Hogan, critical awareness is the basis for creative social and political intervention."--Ashis Nandy, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies "I admire [Hogan's] common sense, lucidity, and civic courage."--Philosophy and Literature "Hogan's book seems to me engaging and energizing!!."--Theory and the fate of literature "Hogan's penetrating study of ideology and cultural institutions, moral judgment, and political commitment is a welcome contribution to the lively current debate on these topics. His carefully reasoned critique of influential 'post-structural' tendencies is developed in the context of an independent libertarian perspective, informed by a sympathetic understanding for the vital human concerns that are at stake, and the intellectual issues that are being confronted, or sometimes evaded."--Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Formidably armed with statistics, intelligence, a relentless philosophical method....Hogan makes an excellent case that the world is a very real place which we can touch and shape with both our hands and our pens. If the world is a text, it is a text which is written by men and women, and by men and women who must take individual responsibility for what they write."--Times Higher Education Supplement "The Politics of Interpretation can be read as a fascinating proposal for the use of literary criticism as a new form of political dissent. To Professor Hogan, critical awareness is the basis for creative social and political intervention."--Ashis Nandy, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies "I admire [Hogan's] common sense, lucidity, and civic courage."--Philosophy and Literature "Hogan's book seems to me engaging and energizing!!."--Theory and the fate of literature