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Culture as Praxis

Paperback • 1999

Culture as Praxis

By Zygmunt Bauman

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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...Show more

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9780761959892

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1999

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Culture as Praxis

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