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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... question'. Put otherwise, contemporary societies, in contrast with the ancient Greek polity, fail to recognise that the private realm of the household (oikia) was the site of labour and thus necessity, and as such should serve the ...
... question'. Put otherwise, contemporary societies, in contrast with the ancient Greek polity, fail to recognise that the private realm of the household (oikia) was the site of labour and thus necessity, and as such should serve the ...
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... question the value of political remonstrance, one is also alerted against placing too much hope in an immediate social recovery. Culture posits 'immortality' and endurance against the evanescent political platform and the unrealistic ...
... question the value of political remonstrance, one is also alerted against placing too much hope in an immediate social recovery. Culture posits 'immortality' and endurance against the evanescent political platform and the unrealistic ...
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... question any contention that language can assume an openness that is interdisciplinary. Rather, any utterance will assume the imprints of its generic form, which endows it with a certain self-contained relative autonomy. However, when ...
... question any contention that language can assume an openness that is interdisciplinary. Rather, any utterance will assume the imprints of its generic form, which endows it with a certain self-contained relative autonomy. However, when ...
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... question the basis of semiology itself. He finds in semiological research a 'dream of scientificity'. That is to say, semiology, while allowing the critical approach to bourgeois culture described, still presupposes that it is capable ...
... question the basis of semiology itself. He finds in semiological research a 'dream of scientificity'. That is to say, semiology, while allowing the critical approach to bourgeois culture described, still presupposes that it is capable ...
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... question the metaphysical opposition between conceptual thought and materiality are also mirrored in Bataille's work. Equally, Nietzsche's claim in The Birth of Tragedy (1872) that the high cultural achievements of Ancient Greece are ...
... question the metaphysical opposition between conceptual thought and materiality are also mirrored in Bataille's work. Equally, Nietzsche's claim in The Birth of Tragedy (1872) that the high cultural achievements of Ancient Greece are ...
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