Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Structure of Modern Cultural TheoryCondition: NewEAN: 9780719086465ISBN: 9780719086465Publisher: Manchester University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/01/2008Item Height: 216mmItem Length: 138mmAuthor: Thomas OsborneLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 0719086469Description: 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, Philosophy & SpiritualityItem Width: 10mmItem Weight: 218gRelease Year: 2008 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Structure of Modern Cultural Theory
Title: The Structure of Modern Cultural Theory
EAN: 9780719086465
ISBN: 9780719086465
Release Date: 09/01/2008
Release Year: 2008
ISBN-10: 0719086469
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Structure of Modern Cultural Theory
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Subject: Movements / Deconstruction, Sociology / General, Individual Philosophers, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Movements / Critical Theory, Movements / Structuralism
Item Height: 0.4 in
Publication Year: 2008
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 7.7 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Subject Area: Philosophy, Social Science
Author: Thomas Osborne
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
