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'Culture' is said to be one of the two or three most complex words in the English language, and the term which is sometimes considered to be its opposite, 'Nature', is commonly awarded the accolade of being the most complex of all. Terry Eagleton's book, in this vital new series from Blackwell, focuses on discriminating different meanings of culture, as a way of introducing to the general reader the contemporary debates around it.
In what amounts to a major statement, with pointed relevance to the world in the new millennium, Eagleton launches a critique of postmodern "culturalism", arguing instead for a more complex relation between Culture and Nature, and trying to retrieve the importance of such concepts as human nature from a non-naturalistic perspective. His book sets its face against a certain fashionable populism in this area, as well as drawing attention to the deficiencies of elitism. It makes radical inquiry into the reasons, both creditable and discreditable, why 'culture' has come in our own period to bulk as large as it does, and provocatively proposes that it is time, while acknowledging its significance, to put it back in its place.
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- Title The Idea of Culture
- Author Terry Eagleton
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 168
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford
- Date 2000-05-18
- Features Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780631219668 / 0631219668
- Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
- Dimensions 9.08 x 6.05 x 0.53 in (23.06 x 15.37 x 1.35 cm)
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Themes
- Theometrics: Academic
- Library of Congress subjects Civilization, Nature
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99-56273
- Dewey Decimal Code 306
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- Library Journal, 03/15/2000, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 02/14/2000, Page 187
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