Cultural Theory: The Key ThinkersAndrew Edgar, Peter Sedgwick Routledge, 28.07.2005 - 304 Seiten Featuring over eighty essays, Cultural Theory: The Key Thinkers is a seminal guide to the literary critics, sociologists, historians, artists, philosophers and writers who have shaped culture and society, and the way in which we view them. Ranging from Arnold to Le Corbusier, from Eco to Marx, the entries offer a lucid analysis of the work of influential figures in the study of cultural theory, making this the perfect introduction for the student and general reader alike. |
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... claim that the analysis of art requires both that one recognises that it is determined by society, and yet that it is free of society. Adorno unravels this through a reinterpretation of Kant's definition of 'beauty' as 'purposiveness ...
... claim that the analysis of art requires both that one recognises that it is determined by society, and yet that it is free of society. Adorno unravels this through a reinterpretation of Kant's definition of 'beauty' as 'purposiveness ...
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... claim is that the sociology of art reveals that the autonomous, purely aesthetic, content of the art work is in fact a sedimented social content. By pursuing its aesthetic concerns, the art work is pursuing the concerns of mundane ...
... claim is that the sociology of art reveals that the autonomous, purely aesthetic, content of the art work is in fact a sedimented social content. By pursuing its aesthetic concerns, the art work is pursuing the concerns of mundane ...
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... claim that humans are different from plants and animals in that they are capable of pursuing a rational existence directed towards action. The highest form of such an existence is one that is directed morally. People, Aristotle argues ...
... claim that humans are different from plants and animals in that they are capable of pursuing a rational existence directed towards action. The highest form of such an existence is one that is directed morally. People, Aristotle argues ...
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... claim in The Birth of Tragedy (1872) that the high cultural achievements of Ancient Greece are the expression of a sublimated form of violence has its parallels in Bataille's explorations of excess and his interest in 19 ...
... claim in The Birth of Tragedy (1872) that the high cultural achievements of Ancient Greece are the expression of a sublimated form of violence has its parallels in Bataille's explorations of excess and his interest in 19 ...
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... claim, in articles published in the Guardian newspaper in 1991, that the 'Gulf War' was a simulation produced by the representational capabilities of modern technology, rather than an event to be taken in the substantive sense ...
... claim, in articles published in the Guardian newspaper in 1991, that the 'Gulf War' was a simulation produced by the representational capabilities of modern technology, rather than an event to be taken in the substantive sense ...
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