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• Title: What's Left of the Dialectic? A Polemic.
• Author : English Studies in Canada
• Release Date : January 01, 2003
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 181 KB

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WHAT'S LEFT OF ENGLISH STUDIES? We want to address this question in an oblique way--not by thinking about the state of the discipline, but by thinking about the conditions of and for thinking today. We present here a set of theses that we hope might help to re-imagine the role and scope of philosophy or theory in the age of finance capitalism; the links between these theses and (the politics of) literary studies will be left open. The sources of these theses are as eclectic as a music collection: they bear with them the traces of broken relationships, misdirected enthusiasms, the inevitable, short-lived fascination with the new, the enduring influence of old favouritas that one cannot get past. These theses should not be taken as prescriptive. They might be read in the light of Friedrich Schiegel's conception of his philosophical fragments--as scraps or remnants of a total system that could never really exist. Fredric Jameson has recently described his own critical practice as a "translation mechanism," a theoretical machine that makes it possible to convert other discourses into the central political problematic that animates Marxism (Zhang 365-66). We conceive these theses in much the same spirit: as grasping towards a mediating code rather than as a set of truth-claims. The utility of these theses will thus be determined by their ability to help produce a philosophy politically rather than conceptually adequate to finance capitalism--a philosophy or theory that takes up the political challenge of the present without thereby failing to become anything more than an expression of (an adequation of) the dynamism of finance capitalism itself.

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