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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- PART ONE. Critical versus Traditional Hermeneutics -- 1. Interpreting Affirmative Culture -- 2. For a Critical Hermeneutics -- PART TWO. Marxism and the Problem of Culture -- 3. The Economy and the Symbolic -- 4. The Concrete Utopia of Poetry -- PART THREE. Culture and Psychoanalysis -- 5. The Social Constitution of Subjectivity -- 6. Aesthetics of Male Fantasy -- Conclusion: Heritage and Hegemony -- Index

Since 9/11, American foreign policy has been guided by grand ideas like tyranny, democracy, and freedom. And yet the course of events has played havoc with the cherished assumptions of hawks and doves alike. The geo-civil war afflicting the Muslim world from Lebanon through Iraq and Afghanistan to Pakistan confronts the West with the need to articulate anew what its political ideas and ideals actually are.