A History Of Modern Culture
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Author | : Raymond F. Betts |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2004-07-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134598394 |
Surveying a range of topics, this lively and informative survey provides an up-to-date, thematic global history of popular culture focusing on the period since the end of the Second World War.
Author | : Preserved Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 722 |
Release | : 1930 |
Genre | : Civilization |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Roger Scruton |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2013-01-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1408193507 |
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.
Author | : Wilfred Cantwell Smith |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1997-07-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780791433942 |
A distinguished historian of religion explores the contemporary culture of the Western world.
Author | : Jonathan Dewald |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520078376 |
"No other work covers the subject that Dewald presents. . . . A learned tour de force."--Orest Ranum, Johns Hopkins University "No other work covers the subject that Dewald presents. . . . A learned tour de force."--Orest Ranum, Johns Hopkins University
Author | : Egon Friedell |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1412820979 |
This is the second volume of Friedell's monumental A Cultural History of the Modern Age. A key figure in the flowering of Viennese culture between the two world wars, this three volume work is considered his masterpiece. The centuries covered in this second volume mark the victory of the scientifi c mind: in nature-research, language-research, politics, economics, war, even morality, poetry, and religion. All systems of thought produced in this century, either begin with the scientifi c outlook as their foundation or regard it as their highest and fi nal goal. Friedell claims three main streams pervade the eighteenth century: Enlightenment, Revolution, and Classicism. In ordinary use, by "Enlightenment" we mean an extreme rationalistic tendency of which preliminary stages were noted in the seventeenth century. Th e term "Classicism", is well understood. Under the term "Revolution" Friedell includes all movements directed against what has been dominant and traditional. Th e aims of such movements were remodeling the state and society, banning all esthetic canons, and dethronement of reason by sentiment, all in the name of the "Return to Nature." Th e Enlightenment tendency might be seen as laying the ground for an age of revolution. Th is second volume continues Friedell's dramatic history of the driving forces of the twentieth century.
Author | : Charles L. Cohen |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2008-07-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780299225742 |
Explores how a variety of print media—religious tracts, newsletters, cartoons, pamphlets, self-help books, mass-market paperbacks, and editions of the Bible from the King James Version to contemporary “Bible-zines”—have shaped and been shaped by experiences of faith since the Civil War
Author | : Russell A. Berman |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780299120849 |
Are the arguments of the Frankfurt School still relevant? Modern Culture and Critical Theory investigates this question in the context of important issues in contemporary cultural politics: neoconservatism and new social movements, discontents with modernity and debates on postmodernism, the political hegemony of Ronald Reagan, and the cultural hegemony of structuralism and poststructuralism. Russell Berman thoughtfully explores the theories of Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, Lyotard, and Foucault and their relevance to both historical and contemporary issues in literature, politics, and the arts.
Author | : Adam R. Nelson |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2010-05-26 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0299236137 |
Vividly revealing the multiple layers on which print has been produced, consumed, regulated, and contested for the purpose of education since the mid-nineteenth century, the historical case studies in Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America deploy a view of education that extends far beyond the confines of traditional classrooms. The nine essays examine “how print educates” in settings as diverse as depression-era work camps, religious training, and broadcast television—all the while revealing the enduring tensions that exist among the controlling interests of print producers and consumers. This volume exposes what counts as education in American society and the many contexts in which education and print intersect. Offering perspectives from print culture history, library and information studies, literary studies, labor history, gender history, the history of race and ethnicity, the history of science and technology, religious studies, and the history of childhood and adolescence, Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America pioneers an investigation into the intersection of education and print culture.
Author | : Paul A. Cleveland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Civilization, Western |
ISBN | : 9780972740104 |