Today’s regnant global economic and cultural system, neoliberal capitalism, demands that life be led as a series of sacrifices to the market. Send Lazarus’s theological critique wends its way through four neoliberal crises: environmental destruction, slum proliferation, mass incarceration, and mass deportation, all while plumbing the sacrificial and racist depths of neoliberalism.
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The Triangle of Representation
- 2. Blurred Identities: Representing Modern Life
- 3. Foundations and Beginnings: Raymond Williams And The Grounds Of Cultural Theory
- 4. Circulating Representations: New Historicism And The Poetics Of Culture
- 5. Representing (Forgetting) the Past: Paul De Man, Fascism, and Deconstruction
- 6. Representing Other Cultures: Edward Said
- 7. Representation or Embodiment? Walter Benjamin And The Politics Of CORRESPONDANCES
- 8. God’s Secret: Reflections On Realism
- 9. Visuality and Narrative: The Moment Of History Painting
- 10. Literature, Painting, Metaphor: Matisse/Proust
- 11. English Proust
- Notes
- Index