"This book is an innovative exploration of the ethical and political significance of cultural studies and post-Marxist discourse theory. Through considerations of key aspects of cultural studies and discourse theory, the author argues that the very thing fundamental to both of these 'politicised' approaches - the quest to establish a theory of intervention, and to relate this to political practice - actually remains frustrated and unrealised as a direct result of the way this has traditionally been approached. Post-Marxism Versus Cultural Studies proposes a new theory of pragmatic intervention - one that is derived from Derridean deconstruction, post-Marxism and cultural studies, and which will be of importance and value for politicised academics and intellectuals working in all areas of political and cultural studies."--Jacket.