ENGLISH

Modern Culture

By Roger Scruton

Book information

Publisher
Continuum
Year
2006
ISBN
0826494447, 9780826494443
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
17 MB (17400292 bytes)
Series
Continuum Compact Series
Edition
2nd
Pages
192\0
Time added
2018-05-31 10:47:32
Philosophy;Aesthetics;Analytic Philosophy;Consciou

Description

What do we mean by 'culture'? This word, purloined by journalists to denote every kind of collective habit, lies at the centre of contemporary debates about the past and future of society.  In this thought-provoking book, Roger Scruton argues for the religious origin of culture in all its forms, and mounts a defence of the 'high culture' of our civilization against its radical and 'deconstructionist' critics.  He offers a theory of pop culture, a panegyric to Baudelaire, a few reasons why Wagner is just as great as his critics fear him to be, and a raspberry to Cool Britannia.  A must for all people who are fed up to their tightly clenched front teeth with Derrida, Foucault, Oasis and Richard Rogers.

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