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Culture and Anomie

Paperback • 1991 • English

Culture and Anomie

By Christopher Herbert

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Few ideas are as important and pervasive in the discourse of the twentieth century as the idea of culture. Yet culture, Christopher Herbert contends, is an idea laden from its inception with ambiguity and contradiction. In Culture and Anomie, Christopher Herbert conducts an inquiry into the historical emergence of the modern idea of culture that is at the same time an extended critical analysis of the perplexities and suppressed associations underlying our own exploitation of this term. Making w...Show more

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ISBN

9780226327396

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published year

1991

Language

English

Original title

Culture and Anomie

Format

Paperback

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