Thomas Osborne

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The Structure of Modern Cultural TheoryPaperback, 30 September 2011

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Print Length
192 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Date Published
30 Sep 2011
ISBN-10
0719086469
ISBN-13
9780719086465

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What is the point of cultural theory? Do we even know what it is? This book is at once an introduction to, and, broadly, a defence of modern cultural theory understood as a particular constellation of inquiry, one that may be all the more important in our postmodern times the more seemingly irrelevant it is to current fashions. Focusing on the work of Theodor Adorno, Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault the book argues that in spite of their differences these authors shared particularly 'modern' understandings of culture, creativity and human agency; understandings centred on the ideas of critical autonomy and creativity of thought. Even though all three were committed to scholarly empirical research, for them the function of cultural theory was not just to describe the world positivistically 'as it is' (or was) but to cultivate the conditions for ethical autonomy in their readerships by opening up ways for thinking differently and exposing the fetishisms and blockages that hinder that task.

Product Details

Author:
Thomas Osborne
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
30 September 2011
Dimensions:
21.59 x 13.97 x 0.97 cm
ISBN-10:
0719086469
ISBN-13:
9780719086465
Language:
English
Location:
Manchester
Pages:
192
Weight:
213.19 gm

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