Academia and the luster of capital / Sande Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Sande.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism (Philosophy).

Critical theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ideas, says Sande Cohen, have attained "commodity" status in the academy, and knowledge is now seen as another capitalistic "industry." In Academia and the Luster of Capital, Cohen both reveals and interrogates the specific and material workings of this economy of the marketplace of ideas.Cohen uses paradigms from Baudrillard, Lytoard, Deleuze, and Guattari to assemble a "war machine" against the well-oiled apparatus of self-preservation and self-reproduction of the academic institution. In detailed and concrete arguments, he challenges accepted theories of criticism, especially university-based

Contents:

1. What is criticism for?

2. The academic thing

3. Habermas's bureaucratization of the final solution

4. The disappearance of history

5. Criticism and art events : reading with Lyotard and Baudrillard.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-178) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8496-0

OCLC:

476093246