Structure Of Modern Cultural Theory
Thomas Osbourne
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Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JHB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 10. Weight in Grams: 208.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719086465
SKU
V9780719086465
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About Thomas Osbourne
Thomas Osborne is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol -- .
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