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      The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History

      Walter Benn Michaels

      Anatomizes what’s fundamentally at stake when we think of literature in terms of the experience of the reader rather than the intention of the author, and when we substitute the…

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      The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality

      Walter Benn Michaels

      Michaels urges readers to start thinking about real justice, about equality instead of diversity. Attacking both the right and the left, this volume could be the most controversial political book…

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      Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism

      Walter Benn Michaels

      Argues that the contemporary commitment to the importance of cultural identity has reovated rather than replaced an earlier commitment to r4acial identity and asserts that the idea of culture, far…

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      The Beauty of a Social Problem

      Walter Benn Michaels

      Bertolt Brecht once worried that our sympathy for the victims of a social problem can make the problem’s beauty and attraction invisible. The author explores the effort to overcome this…

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      The Beauty of a Social Problem: Photography, Autonomy, Economy

      Walter Benn Michaels

      Bertolt Brecht once worried that our sympathy for the victims of a social problem can make the problem’s beauty and attraction invisible. The author explores the effort to overcome this…

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      The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: American Literature at the Turn of the Century

      Walter Benn Michaels

      Discusses ways of creating value in turn-of-the-century American capitalism. Focusing on such topics as the alienation of property, the invention of masochism, and the battle over free silver, this title…

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      No Politics But Class Politics

      Walter Benn Michaels

      This book argues against the establishment of a demographically representative social elite, and for economic justice for everyone.

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      The American Renaissance Reconsidered

      Pease, Walter Benn Michaels, and Allen Grossman.

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      Amir Zaki, Building and Becoming

      Hyperrealist photographer of California skateparks Amir Zaki’s new monograph covers twenty-plus years of photographic work, includes an essay and interview.

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