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The Tyranny of Relativism - Culture and Politics in Contemporary English Society (Hardcover)
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The Tyranny of Relativism - Culture and Politics in Contemporary English Society (Hardcover)
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The Tyranny of Relativism is an impassioned attempt by one of
England's most distinguished critics to capture the feel of British
culture at the end of the twentieth century: its moods, attitudes,
and institutions. Richard Hoggart presents a double argument,
suggesting first that cultural dilemmas stem from a long slide
towards moral relativism, as consumerism rather than authority
increasingly determines the texture of life; and secondly, that
despite its claims to the contrary, British Conservative
governments have exploited these changes to their own ends. Blunt
and forthright, humorous and humane, Hoggart supports his themes by
analyzing particular forms of change in education at all levels, in
the arts, mass and popular entertainment, in broadcasting, in the
use of language, and in the uncertain base of "cultural studies"
themselves. But he also shows how some social forces have worked
against this monumental process: old-style checks and balances, the
resistance of class sentiments, the uneasy sense of lost values.
But in this series of cultural struggles, the intellectuals are
noteworthy by their absence. The great merit of The Tyranny of
Relativism is its resistance to platitudes, and its fearless
probing of thorny questions that go to the heart of Western
cultural traditions for a new age. When Hoggart concludes by asking
"where do we go now" no one should expect complacency. In The
Tyranny of Relativism, Hoggart makes the reader appreciate the
silent complicity of the intellectual class for the cultural rot of
relativism characteristic of western culture today. The book is
must reading for those engaged in cultural studies, European
politics, literary criticism, and the sociology of knowledge.
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