Concepts of Culture

Art, Politics, and Society

Adam Muller editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Calgary Press

Published:12th Dec '05

Should be back in stock very soon

Concepts of Culture cover

How do we define culture? To what uses should our concept of culture be put? What costs and benefits do these uses entail? Adam Muller brings together a diverse group of emerging and established scholars to probe the nature of the concept of culture while shedding light on its many different applications and contexts of use. In particular, they examine the assumed unity of culture and with arguments being made for and against over discussions of popular culture, film, globalization, sport, aesthetics, and human values. This volume brings together a variety of perspectives to add much-needed substance to our understanding of the history and politics of culture. Rigorous and interdisciplinary, Concepts of Culture secures a place for analytic philosophy, humanism, and liberal political theory in the ongoing discussion of exactly what culture is and how culture works.

ISBN: 9781552381670

Dimensions: 228mm x 152mm x 25mm

Weight: 602g

424 pages