An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture
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Word Count
43,250 words, Guess
Page Count
173 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8714323M
- ISBN-139781890318475
- ISBN-101890318477
- OCLC Control Number43599068
- OCLC Control Numberintelligentperso00roge
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number00027225
- LibraryThing161868
- Goodreads791100
Classifications
- LCCHM621 .S27 2000
Description
"Received by the British press with equal acclaim and indignation, this book sets out to define and defend high culture against the world of pop, corn, and popcorn. It shows just why culture matters in an age without faith, and gives an extended argument, drawing on philosophy, criticism, and anthropology, against the "post-modernist" world-view. Scruton offers a penetrating attack on deconstruction, on Foucault, on Nietzschean self-indulgence, and on the "culture of repudiation" which has infected the modern academy. But his book is not only negative. It is a celebration of the true heroes of modern culture and a call to the higher life." "The American edition of this famous and notorious work has been revised to take account of the controversy which it has inspired, and contains new material specially directed to Americans."--BOOK JACKET.
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