ISBN:
141294516X
,
1412945178
,
9781412945165
,
9781412945172
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (vii, 247 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Theory, culture & society
Parallel Title:
Print version Intensive Culture : Social Theory, Religion and Contemporary Capitalism
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Religion and culture
;
Culture and globalization
;
Civilization, Modern
;
Culture
;
Capitalism
Abstract:
Contemporary culture, today's capitalism - our global information society - is ever expanding, is ever more extensive. And yet we seem to be experiencing a parallel phenomenon which can only be characterised as intensive. This thought provoking, innovative book is dedicated to the study of such intensive culture. Whilst extensive culture is a culture of the same: a culture of fixed equivalence ; intensive culture is a culture of difference , of in-equivalence - the singular. Intensities generate what we encounter. They are virtuals or possibilities, always in process and always in movement. We
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 - Introduction; 2 - Intensive Sociology: Georg Simmel's Vitalism; 3 - Intensive Philosophy: Leibniz and the Ontology of Difference; 4 - Intensive Language: Benjamin, God and the Name; 5 - Intensive Capitalism: Marxist Ontology; 6 - Intensive Politics: Power after Hegemony; 7 - Intensive Religion: Emile Durkheim's Elementary Forms; 8 - Information Theology: Philip K. Dick's Will to Knowledge; 9 - Conclusions; References; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
http://sk.sagepub.com/books/intensive-culture
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