Culture as Praxis Paperback / softback
by Zygmunt Bauman
Part of the Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:SAGE Publications Inc
- Publication Date:15/12/1998
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- ISBN:9780761959892
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:SAGE Publications Inc
- Publication Date:15/12/1998
- Category:
- ISBN:9780761959892