Articles by David Simpson

• Selling Europe Culture
  • David Simpson

  in NLR 47, September-October 2007, pp. 153-160
  Subjects: Art , History and Historiography
  

  David Simpson on Donald Sassoon, The Culture of the Europeans. Market mechanisms as makers of genre and arbiters of their survival, in a longue durée account of cultural consumption.

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  Also available in Spanish and Russian
• Politics as Such?
  • David Simpson

  in NLR 30, November-December 2004, pp. 69-82
  Subjects: Literature
  

  In a wide-ranging debate, discussion of Francis Mulhern’s Metaculture has so far focused principally on its view of the substitutions of culture for politics in the tradition of Kulturkritik. David Simpson considers the other side of Mulhern’s argument, its critical assessment of Cultural Studies. Does a too Anglophone reading of its origins risk reproducing a resistance to the foreign in the discipline itself?

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  Also available in Spanish