46-3520 Marx and Marxisms: A Seminar on Marxist Cultural Theory

This seminar will address key questions and problems in contemporary Marxist cultural theory. We will engage several major texts in the Marxist tradition, including those of Marx, Gramsci, Althusser, Adorno, and Jameson, among others. As a cultural studies seminar, this course will pay particular attention to questions of culture, art, ideology, and the subject, and how these questions have featured in debates within the Marxist tradition. We will also examine the historical and intellectual contexts in which these and other Marxist theories and accounts have emerged and developed.

3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 46-2100 Cultural Theories