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Notes Towards The Definition Of Culture

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Author : T. S. Eliot
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2014-03-25

Notes Towards The Definition Of Culture written by T. S. Eliot and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-25 with Literary Criticism categories.

This critique of modern society argues that culture must be organic, and cannot be planned or imposed. The word culture has been widely and erroneously employed in political, educational, and journalistic contexts. In helping to define a word so greatly misused, T. S. Eliot contradicts many of our popular assumptions about culture, reminding us that it is not the possession of any one class but of a whole society—and yet its preservation may depend on the continuance of a class system, and that a “classless” society may be a society in which culture has ceased to exist. Surveying the post–World War II world, Eliot finds evidence of decay in cultural standards in every department of human activity, and expects the phenomenon to continue. He suggests that culture and religion have a common root—and if one decays, the other may die too. In observing the superpowers of his day and the course of recent history, he reminds us that “the Russians have been the first modern people to practise the political direction of culture consciously, and to attack at every point the culture of any people whom they wish to dominate.” The appendix includes Eliot’s broadcasts to Europe, ending with a plea to preserve the legacy of Greece, Rome, and Israel, and Europe’s legacy throughout the last two thousand years. “Behind the urbanity, the modesty, the mere good manners of Mr. Eliot’s exposition, one cannot mistake the force and significance of what he has to say, or ignore that it constitutes a fundamental attack on most of our assumptions on the subject.” —The Spectator

Notes Towards The Definition Of Culture

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Author : Thomas Stearns Eliot
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949

Notes Towards The Definition Of Culture written by Thomas Stearns Eliot and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with Culture categories.

Notes Toward The Definition Of Culture

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Author : Thomas Stearns Eliot
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949

Notes Toward The Definition Of Culture written by Thomas Stearns Eliot and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with categories.

Notes On The Death Of Culture

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Author : Mario Vargas Llosa
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2015-07-14

Notes On The Death Of Culture written by Mario Vargas Llosa and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-14 with Literary Collections categories.

In the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified everyday reality. Now it is largely a mechanism of distraction and entertainment. Notes on the Death of Culture is an examination and indictment of this transformation - penned by none other than the Nobel winner Mario Vargas Llosa, who is not only one of our finest novelists but one of the keenest social critics at work today. Taking his cues from T. S. Eliot - whose treatise Notes Towards the Definition of Culture is a touchstone precisely because the culture Eliot aimed to describe has since vanished - Vargas Llosa traces a decline whose ill effects have only just begun to be felt. He mourns, in particular, the figure of the intellectual: for most of the twentieth century, men and women of letters drove political, aesthetic, and moral conversations; today they have all but disappeared from public debate. But Vargas Llosa stubbornly refuses to fade into the background. He is not content to merely sign a petition; he will not bite his tongue. A necessary provocateur, here vividly translated by John King, provides an impassioned and essential critique of our time and culture.

Culture Still Matters Notes From The Field

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Author : Daniel Varisco
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-10-16

Culture Still Matters Notes From The Field written by Daniel Varisco and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-16 with Social Science categories.

Culture Still Matters: Notes from the Field is a critical defence of anthropology's contributions to analysis of significant social and cultural issues through ethnographic fieldwork, covering theoretical concepts about culture and their critiques in readable prose.

Notes From Underground

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Author : Stephen Duncombe
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 1997

Notes From Underground written by Stephen Duncombe and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Slug & Lettuce, Pathetic Life, I Hate Brenda, Dishwasher, Punk and Destroy, Sweet Jesus, Scrambled Eggs, Maximunrocknroll—these are among the thousands of publications which circulate in a subterranean world rarely illuminated by the searchlights of mainstream media commentary. In this multifarious underground, Pynchonesque misfits rant and rave, fans eulogize, hobbyists obsess. Together they form a low-tech publishing network of extraordinary richness and variety. Welcome to the realm of zines. In this, the first comprehensive study of zine publishing, Stephen Duncombe describes their origins in early-twentieth-century science fiction cults, their more proximate roots in 60s counter-culture and their rapid proliferation in the wake of punk rock. While Notes from Underground pays full due to the political importance of zines as a vital web of popular culture, it also notes the shortcomings of their utopian and escapist outlook in achieving fundamental social change. Duncombe's book raises the larger questionof whether it is possible to rebel culturally within a consumer society that eats up cultural rebellion. Packed with extracts and illustrations from a wide array of publications, past and present, Notes from Underground is the first book to explore the full range of zine culture and provides a definitive portrait of the contemporary underground in all its splendor and misery.

Loose Canons

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Author : Henry Louis Gates
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1993

Loose Canons written by Henry Louis Gates and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Education categories.

Examines multiculturism in American literature and the cultural diversity found in the American classroom.

Notes Towards The Definitation Of Culture

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Author : T. S. Eliot
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962

Notes Towards The Definitation Of Culture written by T. S. Eliot and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with categories.

Cultural Amnesia

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Author : Clive James
language : en
Publisher: Picador USA
Release Date : 2007

Cultural Amnesia written by Clive James and has been published by Picador USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

‘In the forty years it took me to write this book, I only gradually realized that the finished work, if it were going to be true to the pattern of my experience, would have no pattern . . . The book I wanted to write had its origins in the books I was reading. Several times, in my early days, I had to sell my best books to buy food, so I never underlined anything. When conditions improved I became less fastidious. Not long after I began marking passages for future consideration, I also began keeping notes in the margin beside the markings, and then longer notes on the endpapers . . . As the time for assembling my reflections approached, I resolved that a premature synthesis was the thing to be avoided. So this is a book about how not to reach one. If I have done my job properly, themes will emerge from the apparent randomness and make this work intelligible. But it will undoubtedly be a turbulent read, and if this book were not difficult, it would not be true.’ A lifetime in the making, Cultural Amnesia is the book Clive James has always wanted to write. Organized from A through to Z, and containing over 100 essays, it’s the ultimate guide to the twentieth century, illuminating the careers of many of its greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists and philosophers. From Louis Armstrong to Ludwig Wittgenstein, via Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka and Marcel Proust, it’s a book for our times – and, indeed, for all time.

Notes On History Material Culture

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Author : Jones
language : en
Publisher:
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Notes On History Material Culture written by Jones and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.