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Modern culture / Roger Scruton.
- Title
- Modern culture / Roger Scruton.
- Author
- Scruton, Roger
- Publication
- London ; New York : Continuum, 2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HM621 .S38 2005 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 173 p.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- "In this book, Roger Scruton argues for the religious origin of culture in all its forms, and mounts a defence of the 'high culture' of our civilization against its radical and 'deconstructionist' critics. He offers a theory of pop culture, a panegyric to Baudelaire, a few reasons why Wagner is just as great as his critics fear him to be, and a raspberry to 'Cool Britannia'. A must for all people who are fed up to their tightly clenched front teeth with Derrida. Foucault, Oasis and Richard Rogers."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Culture > Philosophy
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-168) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. What is culture? -- 2. Culture and cult -- 3. Enlightement -- 4. The aesthetic gaze -- 5. Romanticism -- 6. Fantasy, imagination and the salesman -- 7. Modernism -- 8. Avant-garde and kitsch -- 9. Surface and surfeit -- 10. Yoofanasia -- 11. Idle hands -- 12. The devil's work -- 13. Conclusions
- ISBN
- 0826485448 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2005278370
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library