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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... forces during the Second World War, during which time he was taken as a prisoner by the Germans). He first came to prominence in the 1960s with the publication of a series of articles which expounded his combination of structuralism and ...
... forces during the Second World War, during which time he was taken as a prisoner by the Germans). He first came to prominence in the 1960s with the publication of a series of articles which expounded his combination of structuralism and ...
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... force with the potential to transform society's attritional habits. In an age where the routes of liberty and progress are waymarked by the pandering desires of the 'ordinary self ', Arnold looks forward to the release, through the ...
... force with the potential to transform society's attritional habits. In an age where the routes of liberty and progress are waymarked by the pandering desires of the 'ordinary self ', Arnold looks forward to the release, through the ...
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... force capable of unleashing a generative religious sensibility. Popular literature is denigrated as an imperfect partisan shadow of the classical ideal. Arnold establishes the 'disinterested' role of the critic as an objective cultural ...
... force capable of unleashing a generative religious sensibility. Popular literature is denigrated as an imperfect partisan shadow of the classical ideal. Arnold establishes the 'disinterested' role of the critic as an objective cultural ...
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... forces of 'Hebraism' and 'Hellenism'. Their alternative rise and fall determines the status of culture at any given time in history. Hellenism is humanity's primary expression of 'spontaneity of consciousness', evincing the reflective ...
... forces of 'Hebraism' and 'Hellenism'. Their alternative rise and fall determines the status of culture at any given time in history. Hellenism is humanity's primary expression of 'spontaneity of consciousness', evincing the reflective ...
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... forces underlying social order which is nevertheless endowed with the potential to invert conventional discourse and thought. Thus, carnival undermines dominant culture not in a directly practical sense, but in the sense that it invades ...
... forces underlying social order which is nevertheless endowed with the potential to invert conventional discourse and thought. Thus, carnival undermines dominant culture not in a directly practical sense, but in the sense that it invades ...
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