The cultural return / Susan Hegeman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hegeman, Susan, 1964-

Series:

Flash points ; 7.

Flash points ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture--Study and teaching.

Culture.

Popular culture--Study and teaching.

Popular culture.

Mass media and culture.

Critical theory.

Culture and globalization.

Physical Description:

x, 160 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.

Summary:

This insightful book tracks the concept of culture across a range of scholarly disciplines and much of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries-years that saw the emergence of new fields and subfields (cultural studies, the new cultural history, literary new historicism, as well as ethnic and minority studies) and came to be called "the cultural turn." Since the 1990s, however, the idea of culture has fallen out of scholarly favor. Susan Hegeman engages with a diversity of disciplines, including anthropology, literary, studies, sociology, philosophy, psychology, and political science, to historicize the rise and fall of the cultural turn and to propose ways that culture may still be a vital concept in the global present. Book jacket.

Contents:

Cultural discontents

Haunted by mass culture

A brief history of the cultural turn

Globalization, culture, and crises of disciplinarity

The Santa Claus problem: culture, belief, modernity

The cultural return.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520268982

0520268989

OCLC:

742234195