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The crisis of culture : identity politics and the empire of norms / Olivier Roy ; translated by Cynthia Schoch and Trista Selous.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roy, Olivier, 1949- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Culture conflict.
- Identity politics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Hurst & Company, 2024.
- Summary:
- Are we confronting a new culture - global, online, individualistic? Or is our existing concept of culture in crisis, as explicit, normative systems replace implicit, social values? Olivier Roy explains today's fractures via the extension of individual political and sexual freedoms from the 1960s.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Crisis in Question
- 2. Anthropological Culture: The Erasure of SharedImplicit Understandings
- 3. Culture as Canon: The Fragility of Transmission
- 4. The Crisis of Imaginaries
- 5. Communication: A Matter of Codes
- 6. Can We Choose Our Sex or Race?
- 7. Suffering and Reparation
- 8. The Joy of Norms
- Conclusion: Human, Not Human Enough
- Notes
- Index
- Back cover.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 30, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 9780197794593
- 0197794599
- 9780197791509
- 0197791506
- 9780197791493
- 0197791492
- OCLC:
- 1427593976
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