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CULTURE AS PRAXIS
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| By: |
Zygmunt Bauman |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0761959882 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780761959885 |
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| Publisher: |
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC |
| Pub. date: |
17 December, 1998 |
| Edition: |
Revised ed. |
| Series: |
Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society |
| Pages: |
208 |
| Description: |
In this major work, Zygmunt Bauman classifies the meanings of culture. For Bauman, culture is a living, changing aspect of human interaction which must be understood and studied as a universal of human life. At the heart of his approach is the proposition that culture is inherently ambivalent. |
| Synopsis: |
In this major work, Zygmunt Bauman seeks to classify the meanings of culture. He distinguishes between culture as a concept, culture as a structure and culture as praxis and analyzes the different ways in which culture has been used in each of these settings. For Bauman, culture is a living, changing aspect of human interaction which must be understood and studied as a universal of human life. At the heart of his approach is the proposition that culture is inherently ambivalent.With a major new introduction to this new edition, this classic work emerges as a crucial link in the development of Bauman's thought. By his own admission, it was the first of his books to grope towards a new kind of social theory, in contrast to the false certainties and gross theorems that dominated much of the post-war period. This is Bauman at his best, at his most subtle and his most searching. |
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SAGE Publications Inc |
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