ISBN:
9780520951822
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (171 p.))
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
FlashPoints 7
Series Statement:
FlashPoints Ser v.7
Series Statement:
EBL-Schweitzer
Series Statement:
FlashPoints
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Hegeman, Susan, 1964 - The cultural return
DDC:
306.01
Keywords:
Culture -- Study and teaching
;
Popular culture -- Study and teaching
;
Mass media and culture
;
Critical theory
;
Culture and globalization
;
Critical theory
;
Culture - Study and teaching
;
Culture and globalization
;
Mass media and culture
;
Popular culture - Study and teaching
;
Critical theory
;
Culture -- Study and teaching
;
Culture and globalization
;
Mass media and culture
;
Popular culture -- Study and teaching
;
Electronic books
;
Culture
;
Study and teaching
;
Popular culture
;
Study and teaching
;
Mass media and culture
;
Critical theory
;
Culture and globalization
;
Electronic books
;
Kulturtheorie
;
Globalisierung
;
Kritische Theorie
;
Massenmedien
;
Massenkultur
Abstract:
Cover; The Cultural Return; FLASHPOINTS; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Cultural Discontents; 2. Haunted by Mass Culture; 3. A Brief History of the Cultural Turn; 4. Globalization, Culture, and Crises of Disciplinarity; 5. The Santa Claus Problem: Culture, Belief, Modernity; 6. The Cultural Return; Notes; Index
Abstract:
This insightful book tracks the concept of culture across a range of scholarly disciplines and much of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries-years that saw the emergence of new fields and subfields (cultural studies, the new cultural history, literary new historicism, as well as ethnic and minority studies) and came to be called ""the cultural turn."" Since the 1990s, however, the idea of culture has fallen out of scholarly favor. Susan Hegeman engages with a diversity of disciplines, including anthropology, literary studies, sociology, philosophy, psychology, and political science, t
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