Cultural Semantics: Keywords of Our Time

Critical Perspectives on Modern Culture

by Martin Jay

In this account of some of the central concepts in modern life and thought, Professor Jay investigates how language cannot fail to change and mediate experience. The topics he treats range from theory and experience to the meaning of multiculturalism and the dynamic of cultural subversion, and among the thinkers he engages are Bataille, Foucault, Adorno, Walter Benjamin and Lyotard.

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First published March 1, 1998

Reviews

[Nils · Rating 5 out of 5]

Essentially the transitional text from Downcast Eyes to Songs of Experience -- as Jay works his way to the idea that a further interrogation of the rejection of the analytic veracity of vision poses the question of what alternative bases there are for arriving at knowledge and truth, e.g. "Experience" in its manifold modalities.