| Culture/Metaculture Contributor(s): Mulhern, Francis (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415102308 ISBN-13: 9780415102308 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2000 Annotation: Francis Mulhern offers a stimulating and concise introduction to the meanings of "culture" in contemporary Western society. In this critical survey, he provides a compelling account of the conceptual and political issues involved in the changing definitions of "culture," as well as critical summaries of key thinkers, such as Mann, Arnold, Freud, Sartre, Woolf and Eliot, and their theories of twentieth-century culture. Mulhern also provides an understanding of the history of debates over high and low culture using an interdisciplinary approach which traverses the boundaries between literary and cultural studies. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 306 |
| LCCN: 99054750 |
| Series: New Critical Idiom |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5" W x 7.74" (0.53 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Culture/Metaculture is a stimulating introduction to the meanings of 'culture' in contemporary Western society. This essential survey examines: * culture as an antidote to 'mass' modernity, in the work of Thomas Mann, Julien Benda, José Ortega y Gasset, Karl Mannheim and F. R. Leavis Francis Mulhern's interdisciplinary approach allows him to draw out the fascinating links between key political issues and the changing definitions of culture. The result is an unrivalled introduction to a concept at the heart of contemporary critical thought. |