ISBN:
9780773566941
,
0773566945
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (218 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Newman, Jay, 1948- Inauthentic culture and its philosophical critics
DDC:
306.01
Keywords:
Culture Philosophy
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History
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Civilization, Western Philosophy
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Culture Philosophie
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Histoire
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Civilisation occidentale Philosophie
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Culture Philosophy
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History
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Civilization, Western Philosophy
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Electronic books
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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PHILOSOPHY ; Movements ; Humanism
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Civilization, Western ; Philosophy
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Culture ; Philosophy
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History - General
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Social Change
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History & Archaeology
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Sociology & Social History
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Social Sciences
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Geschichte
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Kulturkritik
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Kulturphilosophie
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History
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Electronic books
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Electronic books History
Abstract:
"Despite the pervasive feeling that much of the culture of Western democracies has increasingly become inauthentic or phoney, contemporary cultural critics and observers have paid little attention to the traditional philosophical criticism of inauthentic culture that began with Socrates. Aristophanes, and Plato and was applied, reworked, and extended by such philosophical cultural critics as St Augustine, Erasmus, Voltaire, Nietzsche, and Thorstein Veblen. This new study in the philosophy of culture and the history of ideas illuminates the problem of inauthentic culture and draws on the insights of major figures from the Western intellectual tradition to show that our contemporary problem is actually an old and enduring one." "Inauthentic Culture and Its Philosophical Critics will be of great interest to all those concerned with philosophy, cultural theory, and the enduring problem of cultural decline."--Jacket
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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