Paul Thomas is Professor of Political Science, specializing in political theory, University of California, Bekeley. He is the Author of Alien Politics:Marxist State Theory Retrieved (Routledge, 1994.) DavidLloyd is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

• Introduction Culture and Society or Culture and the State?; Chapter 1 The Culture of the Spectacle; Chapter 2 Cultures of Representation; Chapter 3 Capitalism vs. the Democracy; Chapter 4 Facing the Ethical State; con The Future Imperfect; epi Raymond Williams and George Orwell;

"...Lloyd and Thomas have achieved an original and valuable account of the ideological power of aesthetic discourse. This splendidly intelligent book will make necessary reading not just for Victorianists or Marxist theorists, but for anyone with any serious interest in cultural critique." -- Victorian Studies"Culture and the State is brilliant in its conception and absolutely needed in order to both hisoricize and problematize the relationship between culture and the state in light of the current debates... The authors do not merely add another theoretical wrinkle to the issue of the relationship among schook, culture, and the state, but offer a fresh, innovative, original, and much needed take on the subject." -- Henry A. Giroux, Editor of Education and Cultural Studies