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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: London : Faber
Release Date : 1949
Notes Towards The Definition Of Culture written by Thomas Stearns Eliot and has been published by London : Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with Culture categories.
"The word culture, in recent years, 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 a 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 contemporary scene, Mr. Eliot points out that our standards of culture are lower than they were fifty years ago, finds evidence of this decay in every department of human activity, and sees no reason why the decay of culture should not proceed much further. He suggests that culture and religion have a common root and that if one decays the other may die too. 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 his broadcasts to Europe, ending with a plea to preserve the legacy of Greece, Rome, and Israel, and Europe's legacy throughout the last 2,000 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 LONDON SPECTATOR. Provided by publisher.
Notes Toward The Definition Of Culture
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Author : Thomas Stearns Eliot
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
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Notes Towards The Definition Of Culture
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Author : T. S. Elliot
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
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Notes Towards The Definition Of Culture
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Author : Thomas Stearns Eliot (Dichter)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
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T S Eliot
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Author : Clifford William Atkinson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
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Notes Towards The Definition Of Culture Ct S Eliot
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Author : Thomas Stearns Eliot
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
Notes Towards The Definition Of Culture Ct S Eliot 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 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.
Notes Towards The Definitions Of Culture
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Author : Thomas Stearns Eliot
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
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Christianity And Culture
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Author : T. S. Eliot
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2014-04-01
Christianity And Culture written by T. S. Eliot and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-01 with Religion categories.
One of our most prized writers takes a poignant look at the powerful influences of religion and culture in the Western world in these two penetrating essays. The first, The Idea of a Christian Society, examines the undeniable link between religion, politics, and economy, suggesting that a real Christian society requires a direct criticism of political and economic systems. And in Notes towards the Definition of Culture, Eliot sets out to discover the true definition of “culture,” a word whose misuse and ambiguity presents a danger to the legacy of the Western world. Intellectually, Eliot was years ahead of his time, and these essays are an invaluable tool for analyzing and understanding the nature of society today.