Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Francis Mulhern is Associate Editor of New Left Review and author of The Moment of 'Scrutiny', Culture/Metaculture and Figures of Catastrophe. His latest essay collection Into the Mêlée is newly published by Verso.Stefan Collini is Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History and English Literature at the University of Cambridge. His books include, most recently, Common Writing, Speaking of Universities and The Nostalgic Imagination.
An epic debate over the proper relation between culture and politics.
- Bruce Robbins, boundary 2
Mulhern and Collini are just close enough in their practice, and just distant enough in their political temperaments, to be fascinating antagonists.
- Nicholas Dames, Public Books
Absorbing reading . A debate between two of the UK's most prominent critics and historians of criticism that ultimately rippled outward to include intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic.
- Julianne Werlin, The Chronicle of Higher Education
This widely noticed encounter is that rare thing, a sustained debate in which, as Collini remarks, the protagonists not only exchange shots but also ideas. It concludes with Mulhern's engagement with Collini's writing on the subordination of universities to metrics and bureaucracy, and a companion rejoinder from Collini on Mulhern's study of the 'condition of culture novel' and his essays on questions of nationality and the politics of intellectuals.
Acknowledgements
I
1. Culture/Metaculture
- Francis Mulhern
2. Culture Talk
- Stefan Collini
II
3. Beyond Metaculture
- Francis Mulhern
4. Defending Cultural Criticism
- Stefan Collini
5. The Logic of Cultural Criticism
- Francis Mulhern
6. On Variousness; and on Persuasion
- Stefan Collini
III
7. In the Academic Counting-House
- Francis Mulhern
8. The Naming of Parts
- Stefan Collini
Index
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Francis Mulhern is Associate Editor of New Left Review and author of The Moment of 'Scrutiny', Culture/Metaculture and Figures of Catastrophe. His latest essay collection Into the Mêlée is newly published by Verso.Stefan Collini is Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History and English Literature at the University of Cambridge. His books include, most recently, Common Writing, Speaking of Universities and The Nostalgic Imagination.