This book concerns the implications and interrelations of key concepts
of culture, defending an updated communicative notion of culture as
meaning-making against a series of current challenges. The first part
of the book distinguishes four main concepts of culture, presenting
their histories, uses, limitations and mutual contradictions, which
else often tend to be neglected. The second part scrutinizes
neomaterialist and posthumanist critics’ antihermeneutic efforts to
escape the spirals of interpretation and meaning. Learning from such
contestations, the third part summarizes the arguments and in five
theses reconstructs a contemporary and comprehensive agenda for
cultural studies, based on creative imagination and communicative
mediation in the dynamic interface between meaning and materiality.
This thus provides a survey of fundamental concepts and theories of
culture for students and scholars in the humanities and social
sciences, while simultaneously also serving as an introductory guide
to the contemporary debate in this field.
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ISBN
9783319578101
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
Palgrave Macmillan
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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