Modern Culture

Neuauflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9444-3
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 131 mm x 195 mm, Gewicht: 220 g

Reihe: Continuum Compact Series

In this thought-provoking book, the writer and philosopher Roger Scruton argues for the religious origin of culture in all its forms
- Modern Culture mounts a defence of the high culture of our civilization against its radical and deconstructionist critics.

What do we mean by 'culture'? This word, purloined by journalists to denote every kind of collective habit, lies at the centre of contemporary debates about the past and future of society. In this thought-provoking book, Roger Scruton argues for the religious origin of culture in all its forms, and mounts a defence of the 'high culture' of our civilization against its radical and 'deconstructionist' critics. He offers a theory of pop culture, a panegyric to Baudelaire, a few reasons why Wagner is just as great as his critics fear him to be, and a raspberry to Cool Britannia. A must for all people who are fed up to their tightly clenched front teeth with Derrida, Foucault, Oasis and Richard Rogers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scruton, Roger

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Kulturphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

What is Culture?
Culture and Cult
Enlightenment
The Aesthetic Gaze
Romanticism
Fantasy, Imagination and the Salesman
Modernism
Avant-garde and Kitsch
Yoofanasia
Idle Hands
The Devil's Work
Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Roger Scruton is a philosopher and writer. Formerly Professor of Aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London and Visiting Professor at Boston College, USA. He now lives as a freelance writer in Wiltshire. He has published The West and the Rest, News from Somewhere and Gentle Regrets with Continuum.