تجربة النقد الثقافي عند عبد الله الغذامي: بين التنظير والتطبيق

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Cultural criticism is one of the most significant critical approaches and theories produced by postmodernist studies.

It came as a reaction to previous approaches that continued to deal with literature, either in its artistic and aesthetic form (literary criticism) or as a formal linguistic structure (structural criticism).

Hence, cultural studies emerged, which are interested in exploring the implicit patterns of texts and linking them to the cultural and historical contexts produced, then attempting to understand and interpret them according to an extended cultural visionIn this context, the great critic Abdullah Alghadamiis the first to establish Arab cultural criticism through his critical work“Cultural Criticism - Reading in Arab Cultural Texts”.

He addressed the need to engage in cultural criticism as a cognitive and systematic alternative to literary criticism in order to dig deep into the texts and uncover the implicit and hiddenpatterns.

Literary criticism, while working to read texts aesthetically and artistically, has been blind to systemic flaws hidden under the coat of aesthetic, which have contributed to covering up the flaws of ancient and modern Arab culture.

which have contributed to covering up the flaws of ancient and modern Arab culture.

this paper seeks to answer the following question: What are the intellectual and cognitive pillars that have formed the cultural criticism references according to Elghadhami? How did Abdullah Alghadami lay the foundations of cultural criticism -references of critical vision-?