Note publique d'information : "In The Cultural Politics of the New American Studies, leading American Studies scholar
John Carlos Rowe responds to two urgent questions for intellectuals. First, how did
neoliberal ideology use the issues of feminism, gay rights, multiculturalism, transnationalism
and globalization, class mobility, religious freedom, and freedom of speech and cultural
expression to justify a new "American Exceptionalism," designed to support U.S. economic,
political, military, and cultural expansion around the world in the past two decades?
Second, if neoliberalism has employed successfully various cultural media, then what
are the best means of criticizing its main claims and fundamental purposes? Is it
possible under these circumstances to imagine a "counter-culture," which might effectively
challenge neoliberalism or is such an alternative already controlled and contained
by such labels as "political correctness," the far left," "radicalism," "extremism,"
even "terrorism," which in the popular imagination refer to political and social minorities,
doomed thereby to marginalization? Rowe argues that the tradition of "cultural criticism"
advocated by influential public intellectuals, like Edward Said, can be adapted to
the new circumstances demanded by the hegemony of neoliberalism and its successful
command of new media. Yet rather than simply honoring such important predecessors
as Said, we need to reconceive the role of the public intellectual as more than just
an "interdisciplinary scholar" but also as a social critic able to negotiate the different
media"--Publisher's description
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