Social Science Popular Culture
Concepts of Culture
Art, Politics, and Society
- Publisher
- University of Calgary Press
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2005
- Category
- Popular Culture
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781552381670
- Publish Date
- Dec 2005
- List Price
- $49.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781552383179
- Publish Date
- Dec 2005
- List Price
- $49.95
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Description
How do we define culture? To what uses should our concept of culture be put? What costs and benefits do these uses entail?
Adam Muller brings together a diverse group of emerging and established scholars to probe the nature of the concept of culture while shedding light on its many different applications and contexts of use. In particular, they examine the assumed unity of culture and with arguments being made for and against over discussions of popular culture, film, globalization, sport, aesthetics, and human values.
This volume brings together a variety of perspectives to add much-needed substance to our understanding of the history and politics of culture. Rigorous and interdisciplinary, Concepts of Culture secures a place for analytic philosophy, humanism, and liberal political theory in the ongoing discussion of exactly what culture is and how culture works.
About the authors
Adam Muller is an associate professor of English at the University of Manitoba. His specializations include literary theory, analytic aesthetics, film theory and criticism, and cultural studies.
Adam Muller is an associate professor of English at the University of Manitoba. His specializations include literary theory, analytic aesthetics, film theory and criticism, and cultural studies.
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Imre Szeman holds the Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta and is the cofounder of the Petrocultures Research Group. He is the coauthor of After Oil and the coeditor of The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism.
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