Culture/Metaculture
Culture/Metaculture Culture/Metaculture is a stimulating introduction to the meanings of 'culture' in contemporary Western society. Leavischanging views of the term in the work of Sigmund Freud,…
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Culture/Metaculture
Culture/Metaculture is a stimulating introduction to the meanings of 'culture' in contemporary Western society. Leavischanging views of the term in the work of Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, T. S. This essential survey examines:culture as an antidote to 'mass' modernity, in the work of Thomas Mann, Julien Benda, Jos Ortega y Gasset, Karl Mannheim and F. R.
The result is an unrivalled introduction to a Eliot and Richard Hoggartpost-war theories of 'popular' culture and the rise of Cultural Studies, paying particular attention to the key figures of Raymond Williams and Stuart Halltheories of 'metaculture', or the ways in which culture, however defined, speaks of itself.Francis Mulhern's interdisciplinary approach allows him to draw out the fascinating links between key political issues and the changing definitions of culture.