1st Edition
Classical Readings on Culture and Civilization
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
In recent times, especially under the influence of postmodernism, culture has often been construed as a critique of modernity. This wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of readings shows that such issues have always been at the centre of thought about the relationship between culture and civilization The readings are divided into three sections, linking the civilization debate to political... Read more
Acknowledgements, Introduction: Civilization, culture and the human self-image, PART I Civilization as political transformation, PART II Cultural critiques of civilization, PART III Sociology and anthropology: from civilization to civilizing processes, Index
Biography
John Rundell is Director of the Ashworth Centre for Social Theory at the University of Melbourne. His previous publications include Origins of Modernity and Rethinking Imagination. Stephen Mennell is Professor of Sociology at University College, Dublin, and is the author of Uses and Abuses of Social Theory, All Manners of Food and Norbert Elias: Civilization and the Human Self-image.
