[csaa-forum] Is cultural studies inherently left-wing?

[Warwick Mules]

Terry, Liz 


What concerns me about cultural studies, and more generally the humanities, is not whether it's left wing or not, but that those of us, like me, who hold to a critical theory or critical reading position, are best positioned to defend ourselves and what we do against attacks by various people from within the academy and from the media. In a previous posting to this list (21 Dec 2004) I argued for a re-orienation of the humanities towards Enlightenment values and a re-appraisal of what we do in a critical sense. This is not inherently left or right wing, but picks up on a strand of humanities that goes way back to the beginnings of modernity and the establishment of a self-reflective consciousness and all that that entails. All of our work, I believe, should be underpinned by rigorous theoretical and readerly/scholarly work if we are to maintain all the things that we've achieved so far.

Chs


Warwick

Humanities

CQU



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