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Modern Culture

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Modern Culture

By Roger Scruton

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About the book

What do we mean by 'culture'? This word, purloined by journalists to denote every kind of collective habit, lies at the centre of contemporary debates about the past and future of society. In this thought-provoking book, Roger Scruton argues for the religious origin of culture in all its forms, and mounts a defence of the 'high culture' of our civilization against its radical and 'deconstructionist' critics. He offers a theory of pop culture, a panegyric to Baudelaire, a few reasons why Wagner i...Show more

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9781472969033

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published year

2018

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1

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Modern Culture

Format

Paperback

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