One of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual
history that argues for the reclamation of culture's value Culture
is a defining aspect of what it means to be human. Defining culture
and pinpointing its role in our lives is not, however, so
straightforward. Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and
cultural critics, is uniquely poised to take on the challenge. In
this keenly analytical and acerbically funny book, he explores how
culture and our conceptualizations of it have evolved over the last
two centuries-from rarified sphere to humble practices, and from a
bulwark against industrialism's encroaches to present-day
capitalism's most profitable export. Ranging over art and
literature as well as philosophy and anthropology, and major but
somewhat "unfashionable" thinkers like Johann Gottfried Herder and
Edmund Burke as well as T. S. Eliot, Matthew Arnold, Raymond
Williams, and Oscar Wilde, Eagleton provides a cogent overview of
culture set firmly in its historical and theoretical contexts,
illuminating its collusion with colonialism, nationalism, the
decline of religion, and the rise of and rule over the "uncultured"
masses. Eagleton also examines culture today, lambasting the
commodification and co-option of a force that, properly understood,
is a vital means for us to cultivate and enrich our social lives,
and can even provide the impetus to transform civil society.
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