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Culture: A Reformer's Science / Edition 1

Culture: A Reformer's Science / Edition 1

by Tony Bennett
Culture: A Reformer's Science / Edition 1
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ISBN-10:
076195922X
ISBN-13:
9780761959229
Pub. Date:
07/29/1998
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
Culture: A Reformer's Science / Edition 1

Culture: A Reformer's Science / Edition 1

by Tony Bennett

Overview

This major work, by one of the key figures in cultural studies, critically examines the theory, history and practice of culture. It is a comprehensive review of the main debates in cultural studies that is grounded in an historical account of the modern relations between culture and government.

The book illuminates the relationship between culture and the social, as well as offering an important assessment of the role of intellectuals in relation to the organization of contemporary cultural life. Culture: A Reformer's Science is a major reappraisal of cultural studies; an engagement with the relations of culture and policy; and a critical examination of the conditions for intellectual work.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780761959229
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publication date: 07/29/1998
Series: Cultural Media Policy series
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

About The Author

Date of Birth:

August 3, 1926

Place of Birth:

Astoria, Queens, New York, New York

Website:

http://www.exploringthearts.org

Table of Contents

PART ONE: THEORY
Towards a Pragmatics for Cultural Studies
Being ‘in the True' of Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies
The Foucault Effect
PART TWO: HISTORY
Culture
A Reformer's Science
The Multiplication of Culture's Utility
Regulated Restlessness
Museums, Liberal Government and the Historical Sciences
PART THREE: PRACTICE
Culture, Power, Resistance
Culture and Policy
Out in the Open
Reflections on the History and Practice of Cultural Studies
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