Labyrinths: Explorations in the Critical History of Ideas (Critical Perspectives on Modern Culture)

We are currently updating our website and have not yet posted complete information for this title. Many of our books are in the Google preview program, which allows readers to view up to 20% of the book. If this title is active in the program, you will find the Google Preview button in the sidebar below. Ten essays on issues in philosophy, literary theory and intellectual history. The question of radical imperialism of the postmodern turn, the unstated agenda of neoconservative cultural theory and a discussion of Walter Benjamin's place in cultural studies are included in the text. It is well known that in his introduction to the Collected Essays on the Sociology of World Religions (1920) Max Weber grapples with the problem of the cultural specificity of the West. This book offers a series of probing reflections on issues at the heart of recent debates in philosophy, literary, theory, and intellectual history.