Articles by Stefan Collini

• On Variousness; and On Persuasion
  • Stefan Collini

  in NLR 27, May-June 2004, pp. 65-97
  Subjects: Aesthetics , Literature
  

  The resources culture may appropriately furnish for a critique of society, not always unpolitical, defended against Francis Mulhern’s case in Metaculture and its sequels. Does criticism persuade by attraction of example, or by force of proposition?

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• Defending Cultural Criticism
  • Stefan Collini

  in NLR 18, November-December 2002, pp. 73-97
  Subjects: Aesthetics , Literature
  

  Is cultural criticism condemned to the gestures of an anti-political disdain, whether Right or Left in origin? Replying to Francis Mulhern in NLR 16, Stefan Collini argues to the contrary that it signifies an indispensable moment of committed reflection.

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• Culture Talk
  • Stefan Collini

  in NLR 7, January-February 2001, pp. 43-53
  Subjects: Aesthetics , Literature
  

  Between the elite traditions of Kulturkritik and the populist enthusiasms of Cultural Studies, nominal antagonists, Francis Mulhern’s Culture/Metaculture discerns a covert bond—a common hostility to politics proper, as the antonym of culture. Stefan Collini queries his way of resolving the tension between these two.

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