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CultureMetaculture is a stimulating introduction to the meanings ofculture in contemporary Western society. This essential survey examines culture as an antidote to mass modernity in the work of Thomas MannJulien Benda Jose Ortega y Gasset Karl Mannheim and F. R. Leavis changing views of the term in the work of Sigmund Freud Virginia WoolfGeorge Orwell T. S. Eliot and Richard Hoggart postwar theories of popular culture and the rise of Cultural Studiespaying particular attention to the key figures of Raymond Williams and StuartHall theories of metaculture or the ways in which culture however definedspeaks of itself.Francis Mulherns interdisciplinary approach allows him to draw out thefascinating links between key political issues and the changing definitions ofculture. The result is an unrivalled introduction to a concept at the heart ofcontemporary critical thought. «
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