The Structure of Modern Cultural Theory
What is the point of cultural theory? Do we even know what it is? This book is at once an introduction to, and, broadly, a defence of modern cultural theory understood as a particular constellation of inquiry, one that may be all the more important in our postmodern times the more seemingly irrelevant it is to current fashions.Focusing on the work of Theodor Adorno, Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault the book argues that in spite of their differences these authors shared particularly 'modern' understandings of culture, creativity and human agency; understandings centred on the ideas of critical autonomy and creativity of thought. Even though…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7190-7823-1
- EAN: 9780719078231
- Produktnummer: 23474368
- Verlag: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 176 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B13.8 cm x D0.0 cm 340 g
- Gewicht: 340
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
Über den Autor
Thomas Osborne is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol
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