224 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Culture/Metaculture is a stimulating introduction to the meanings of 'culture' in contemporary Western society. This essential survey examines:
* culture as an antidote to 'mass' modernity, in the work of Thomas Mann, Julien Benda, José Ortega y Gasset, Karl Mannheim and F. R. Leavis * changing views of the term in the work of Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, T. S. Eliot and... Read more
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Against Mass Civilization 2. In the Wars 3. Welfare? 4. A Reckoning
Biography
Francis Mulhern is Professor of Critical Studies at the University of Middlesex. He is author of The Moment of Scrutiny (1979) and The Present Lasts a Long Time (1998).
'This book is both informative and illuminating in the ways in which it explores the changing definitions of 'culture'.' - Angela Werndly, Years Work in Critical Cultural Theory
