Concepts of Culture - Art, Politics, and Society (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Calgary Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	December 2005
Contributors:	Adam Muller
Editors:	Adam Muller
Contributors:	Martha Nussbaum • Rhonda Martens • Carl Matheson • Christoph Brumann • Geoffrey Hartman • Jacques Barzun • Mette Hjort • Imre Szeman
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	424
Edition:	Illustrated Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-55238-167-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
LSN:	1-55238-167-6
Barcode:	9781552381670

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