A Sociological Genealogy of Culture Wars Hardback
by Maya (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico) Aguiluz-Ibarguen, Josetxo (Public University of Navarra, Spain) Beriain
Part of the Routledge Advances in Sociology series
Hardback
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This book analyzes the culture wars as those struggles for the monopoly of the legitimate representation of the world in the normative elucidation of controversial issues linked to values.
Public culture in this context would consist of a set of complex classificatory systems of symbols and meanings that constitute a semantic field in permanent dynamic tension.
In this work we analyze a whole series of lines of cultural conflict such as the social and semantic genesis of the different forms of “culture war” from the thesis of “modern polytheism” pointed out by Max Weber at the beginning of the 20th century to the national culture wars and the current global culture wars; the social production of truth and the clash with the epistemological tribalisms; the struggles between the new warrior gods, daimons and demons that emerge in modern societies; the struggles of fusion and fission on the symbolic battlefield of “Europe”; the struggles between “pioneers” and “gatekeepers” to define the limits of human nature; the struggles between utopias and dystopias that colonize the present future.
This book will be of great help to anybody looking for key interpretations on the nature and structure of modern conflicts in contemporary societies.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:172 pages, 1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:12/12/2023
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- ISBN:9781032594682
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:172 pages, 1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:12/12/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781032594682
