Cultural Materialism by Andrew Milner

Cultural Materialism by Andrew Milner

For much of the 20th century, idealist accounts sought to represent culture as ""pure"" consciousness, while materialist accounts represented it as a secondary ""effect"" of some other material reality. From the 1970s, however, new theoretical paradigms have sought rather to establish the materiality of culture itself. The term ""cultural materialism"", coined by Raymond Williams, describes this emergent body of cultural theory. ""Cultural Materialism"" is both an introduction and a contribution to cultural theory. It situates cultural materialism in relation to earlier paradigms such as literary humanism and Marxism. It explains how the new paradigm has been applied to important areas such as cultural studies, media studies and literary studies. It explains the more significant differences between British and French variants in the paradigm: Raymond Williams, E.P.Thompson and the Birmingham School in Britain, Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault in France.

Dr Andrew Milner is the author of Contemporary Cultural Theory (1991) and John Milton and the English Revolution (1981) and co-author of Discourse and Difference (1990) and Postmodern Conditions (1988). He was director of the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash University.

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Title	Cultural Materialism
Author	Andrew Milner
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Publisher	Melbourne University Press
Year published	1989-04-30
Number of pages	1
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