Cultural Studies emerged through encounter with Gramsci, structuralism, semiology, and psychoanalysis

Evidence

During this period, Stuart’s approach, while initially much influenced by dialogues with the work of Richard Hoggart, Raymond Williams, and Edward Thompson, gradually moved away from that left-wing “culturalist” perspective—and from the more fundamentalist forms of Marxism espoused by some parts of the New Left. This transition occurred at CCCS through a series of paradigm-shifting intellectual encounters both with revisionist forms of Marxism (especially Althusser, Poulantzas, and, most importantly, Gramsci), structural anthropology and linguistics (Lévi-Strauss, Saussure), semiology (Barthes and Veron), and later with psychoanalytic theory (both Freud and Lacan), deconstruction, and new forms of historical work based around discourse analysis of a variety of types (Foucault, Derrida). — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 19

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• XREF: This is the intellectual genealogy the reader needs: Gramsci (hegemony/common sense), Foucault (discourse, biopolitics), Lacan (subjectivity) — all named as the toolkit for downstream Islamophobia readings.

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