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The Structure of Modern Cultural Theory - Couverture souple

Osborne, Thomas

 
9780719086465: The Structure of Modern Cultural Theory
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0719086469 ISBN 13 : 9780719086465
Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2008

Synopsis

What is the point of cultural theory? Do we even know what it is? This book is at once an introduction to, and, broadly, a defence of modern cultural theory understood as a particular constellation of inquiry, one that may be all the more important in our postmodern times the more seemingly irrelevant it is to current fashions.

Focusing on the work of Theodor Adorno, Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault the book argues that in spite of their differences these authors shared particularly 'modern' understandings of culture, creativity and human agency; understandings centred on the ideas of critical autonomy and creativity of thought. Even though all three were committed to scholarly empirical research, for them the function of cultural theory was not just to describe the world positivistically 'as it is' (or was) but to cultivate the conditions for ethical autonomy in their readerships by opening up ways for thinking differently and exposing the fetishisms and blockages that hinder that task.

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À propos de l'auteur

Thomas Osborne is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol

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Éditeur
Manchester University Press
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0719086469
ISBN 13 
9780719086465
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
192
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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