The structure of modern cultural theory

By: Thomas Osborne

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Paperback | 2 September 2008

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What is the point of cultural theory? Do we even know what it is? This book is at once an introduction to, and, broadly, a defence of modern cultural theory understood as a particular constellation of inquiry, one that may be all the more important in our postmodern times the more seemingly irrelevant it is to current fashions.

Focusing on the work of Theodor Adorno, Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault the book argues that in spite of their differences these authors shared particularly 'modern' understandings of culture, creativity and human agency; understandings centred on the ideas of critical autonomy and creativity of thought. Even though all three were committed to scholarly empirical research, for them the function of cultural theory was not just to describe the world positivistically 'as it is' (or was) but to cultivate the conditions for ethical autonomy in their readerships by opening up ways for thinking differently and exposing the fetishisms and blockages that hinder that task.

This book is intended to be both accessible for students and challenging for specialists, making a plea for a renewal of the modern in postmodern times

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Non-Fiction Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography Society & Culture Cultural Studies Sociology Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies Philosophy History of Western Philosophy

Western Philosophy Deconstructionism

Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction
Culture âÇô an antinomical view
Adorno as educator
Foucault and the ethics of subjectivity
Bourdieu, ethics and reflexivity
A note on post-modern cultural theory
Conclusion
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