KEY ISSUES IN CRITICAL & CULTURAL THEORY
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- ISBN13: 8131602443
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher Imprint: Rawat
- Pages: 166
- Language: English
- Edition: First
- Item Weight: 500
- BISAC Subject(s): Anthropology
Dealing directly with the issues entailed in cultural analysis, the book avoids simply looking at the eminent authors or movements in critical and cultural theory, and instead focuses on why studying culture matters to us today:
• What are the ‘proper’ objects of cultural study?
• What makes something ‘art’?
• What can critical and cultural theory contribute to contemporary debates about ethics?
• What possibilities are opened up by theories of ‘otherness’ in thinking about the stranger or outsider in today’s society?
• How does a culture contest its own values – in relation to race, gender, class, sexuality and a variety of faiths and abilities?
“Key Issues in Critical and Cultural Theory” is key reading for students studying humanities, and for those with an interest in culture, aesthetics, ethics and philosophy who want to understand how these affect the world.