Critical Trajectories: Culture, Society, Intellectuals

Critical Trajectories: Culture, Society, Intellectuals brings together for the first time writings from one of the leading figures in cultural studies -- Tony Bennett. The selections in the volume span the period from the late 1970s to the present, representing issues of enduring concern in Bennett's work over this period and throughout his wide-ranging intellectual career.

• Charts the extensive influence of Bennett’s thinking across the humanities and social sciences - from cultural history to museums and memory, and from Bond and popular culture to cultural policy and governance
  
• Tackles some of the most important subjects in cultural studies, including aesthetics, textuality, the intellectual, and the role of cultural history
  
• Includes a new introductory essay pinpointing Bennett’s concerns in changing intellectual and political contexts
  

Content:
Chapter 1 Severing the Aesthetic Connection (pages 19–39):
Chapter 2 Texts, Readers, Reading Formations (pages 40–53):
Chapter 3 Figuring Audiences and Readers (pages 54–67):
Chapter 4 Culture and Governmentality (pages 71–85):
Chapter 5 Acting on the Social: Art, Culture, and Government (pages 86–100):
Chapter 6 Archaeological Autopsy: Objectifying Time and Cultural Governance (pages 103–120):
Chapter 7 Civic Seeing: Museums and the Organization of Vision (pages 122–137):
Chapter 8 Intellectuals, Culture, Policy: The Technical, the Practical, and the Critical (pages 141–162):
Chapter 9 The Historical Universal: The Role of Cultural Value in the Historical Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu (pages 163–182):