Auteur: Walter Benn Michaels

The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism discusses ways of creating value in turn-of-the-century American capitalism. Focusing on such topics as the alienation of property, the invention of maso …

The Shape of the Signifier is a critique of recent theory–primarily literary but also cultural and political. Bringing together previously unconnected strands of Michaels’s thought–from ‘Against Th …

Gefeiert als »eloquent« (Chicago Tribune) und »stichhaltig« (The New Yorker), verströmt das Buch »einen Hauch von Genialität« (The Economist) und macht es unmöglich, mit den Thesen von Walter Benn Mi …

Denouncing racism and celebrating diversity have become central mainstays of progressive politics: for many on the left, social justice consists of equitable distribution of wealth, power, and esteem …

Arguing that the contemporary commitment to the importance of cultural identity has renovated rather than replaced an earlier commitment to racial identity, Walter Benn Michaels asserts that the idea …