Chapter 11. The Arnoldian Ideal, or Culture Studies and the Problem of Nothingness

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction. Discipline and Freedom 1
5. PART I. Disciplinary Formations
6. Chapter 1. Literary Study and the Modern System of the Disciplines 19
7. Chapter 2. Disciplinary and Radicality: Quantum Theory and Nonclassical Thought at the Fin de Siecle, and as Philosophy of the Future 44
8. PART II. Disciplines and Professionalism
9. Chapter 3. How Economics Became a Science: A Surprising Career of a Model Discipline 87
10. Chapter 4. Professional Status and the Moral Order 126
11. Chapter 5. Durkheim, Disciplinarity, and the "Sciences Religieuses" 153
12. PART III. Disciplines of the Self
13. Chapter 6. Subjecting English and the Question of Representation 177
14. Chapter 7. Dying Twice: Victorian Theories of Deja Vu 196
15. Chapter 8. Oscar Wilde, Erving Goffman, and the Social Body Beautiful 219
16. PART IV. Discipline and the State
17. Chapter 9. Character and Pastorship in Two British "Sociological" Traditions: Organized Charity, Fabian Socialism, and the Invention of New Liberalism 235
18. Chapter 10. Victorian Continuities: Early British Sociology and the Welfare of the State 261
19. PART V. Disciplinary Contests and the Present Horizon
20. Chapter 11. The Arnoldian Ideal, or Culture Studies and the Problem of Nothingness 283
21. Chapter 12. Notes on the Defenestration of Culture 312
22. Notes on Contributors 333
23. Index 337