{"product_id":"insurgent-metaphors-essays-on-culture-and-class-9781032365534","title":"Insurgent Metaphors: Essays on Culture and Class","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Pothik Ghosh\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sociology - Social Theory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarxism's cultural turn, which has been prominent in its operation over at least the past four decades, continues to belie the hope it had initially held out. The idea that such a move would eventually pull Marxism out of its 'ontological crisis' is on the verge of a miscarriage. That is certainly the case in sub-continental South Asia. Unsurprisingly, therefore, 'culturally-turned' Marxism survives as the sign of the very crisis it was meant to surpass. Its canonisation within the academia, and beyond, as a mere analytic of culture has led to the blurring of politico-ideological lines. The quietist impulse that this theory of the science of revolution has, as a consequence, come to share with so-called poststructuralism implies its complete detachment from all notions and conceptions of class and class action.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 13 essays that comprise this book are envisaged as a small attempt from South Asia - where communitarian postcolonialism and 'Marxist' culturalism constitute the most respectable trend in radical theory - to remedy the situation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46442271572119,"sku":"9781032365534","price":6144.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781032365534.webp?v=1769121981","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/insurgent-metaphors-essays-on-culture-and-class-9781032365534","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}