Eagleton Terry - Culture - Paperback
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Description: One of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of culture's value Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human. Defining culture and pinpointing its role in our lives is not however so straightforward. Terry Eagleton one of our foremost literary and cultural critics is uniquely poised to take on the challenge. In this keenly analytical and acerbically funny book he explores how culture and our conceptualizations of it have evolved over the last two centuries from rarified sphere to humble practices and from a bulwark against industrialism's encroaches to present - day capitalism's most profitable export. Ranging over art and literature as well as philosophy and anthropology and major but somewhat "unfashionable" thinkers like Johann Gottfried Herder and Edmund Burke as well as T. S. Eliot Matthew Arnold Raymond Williams and Oscar Wilde Eagleton provides a cogent overview of culture set firmly in its historical and theoretical contexts illuminating its collusion with colonialism nationalism the decline of religion and the rise of and rule over the "uncultured" masses. Eagleton also examines culture today lambasting the commodification and co - option of a force that properly understood is a vital means for us to cultivate and enrich our social lives and can even provide the impetus to transform civil society.
Title: Culture
Author(s): Eagleton Terry
Publisher: Yale University Press
Barcode: 9780300270617
Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Date: 4/25/2023
Category: Cultural Studies
Description: One of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of culture's value Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human. Defining culture and pinpointing its role in our lives is not however so straightforward. Terry Eagleton one of our foremost literary and cultural critics is uniquely poised to take on the challenge. In this keenly analytical and acerbically funny book he explores how culture and our conceptualizations of it have evolved over the last two centuries from rarified sphere to humble practices and from a bulwark against industrialism's encroaches to present - day capitalism's most profitable export. Ranging over art and literature as well as philosophy and anthropology and major but somewhat "unfashionable" thinkers like Johann Gottfried Herder and Edmund Burke as well as T. S. Eliot Matthew Arnold Raymond Williams and Oscar Wilde Eagleton provides a cogent overview of culture set firmly in its historical and theoretical contexts illuminating its collusion with colonialism nationalism the decline of religion and the rise of and rule over the "uncultured" masses. Eagleton also examines culture today lambasting the commodification and co - option of a force that properly understood is a vital means for us to cultivate and enrich our social lives and can even provide the impetus to transform civil society.
Title: Culture
Author(s): Eagleton Terry
Publisher: Yale University Press
Barcode: 9780300270617
Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Date: 4/25/2023
Category: Cultural Studies