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The Structure of Modern Cultural Theory (Paperback)
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The Structure of Modern Cultural Theory (Paperback)
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Loot Price R546
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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. -- .
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