This book contributes to an ongoing conversation in the field of cultural studies and cultural theory regarding the political role of cultural critique. It addresses theoretical and methodological issues in the fields of cultural studies, radical sociology, critical communication studies, and Chicana/o studies.

Robert F. Carley is Assistant Professor of International Studies at Texas A&M University, College Station. He most recent work appears in Rethinking Marxism and he is the author of Culture and Tactics: Gramsci, Race, and The Politics of Interpretation (Forthcoming) and Collectivities: Politics at the Intersections of Disciplines (Lexington, 2016).

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Rethinking the Relationship between Political Economy and Culture
Chapter 3: Rethinking the Relationship between the Structured Subject and Cultural Creativity
Chapter 4: Revisiting Conjuncture or Revisiting the Relationship between the Political Economy and Culture: The Contributions of Antonio Gramsci
Chapter 5: The Meteorology Analogy: Cultural Scholarship in Stormy Conditions
Chapter 6: Radical Sociology and the Prefiguration of Cultural Studies:
Marxism, Differentiation Maps, Interdisciplinary Reason, and Methodological Politics
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About the Author