Critical Trajectories: Culture, Society, Intellectuals

Introduction.

Part I: The literary and the aesthetic.

1. Severing the aesthetic connection.

2. Texts, readers and reading formations.

3. Figuring audiences and readers.

Part II: Culture, governance and the social.

4. Culture and governmentality.

5. Acting on the social: art, culture, and government.

Part III: Museums as civic machineries.

6. Archaeological autopsy: objectifying time and cultural governance.

7. Civic seeing: museums and the organisation of vision.

Part IV: Intellectuals, culture, politics.

8. Intellectuals, culture, policy: the technical, the practical and the critical.

9. The historical universal: the role of cultural value in the historical sociology of Pierre Bourdieu.

Selected Bibliography.

References.

Index