Social Science Popular Culture
Concepts of Culture
Art, Politics, and Society
- Publisher
- University of Calgary Press
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2005
- Category
- Popular Culture, Cultural, Customs & Traditions
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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 such a concept be put? What costs and benefits do these uses entail? In this volume, Adam Muller brings together contributions from a diverse group of established and emerging scholars each of whom probes the nature of the culture concept while shedding light on its many different applications and contexts of use. Of particular concern to Muller and his contributors is the putative unity of culture, a notion variously affirmed and denied in this volume over the course of discussions of such matters as popular culture, film, globalization, education, sport, aesthetics, and human values. The variety of perspectives gathered here, in addition to adding much needed substance to our understanding of the history and politics of "culture," taken together confirm the practical advantages to the sort of rigorous and dynamic interdisciplinarity ever more a part of academic life. Concepts of Culture: Art, Politics, and Society also helps to secure a place for analytic philosophy, humanism, and liberal political theory in contemporary debates over what exactly "culture" is and how it works.
Contributors include such distinguished scholars as Jacques Barzun, Geoffrey Hartman, Mette Hjort, and Martha Nussbaum.
With Contributions By: Jacques Barzun Christoph Brumann Geoffrey Hartman Mette Hjort Rhonda Martens Carl Matheson Adam Muller David Novitz Martha Nussbaum Jim Parry Martin Roberts Robert Stecker Imre Szeman
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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