Classical Readings on Culture and Civilization (International Library of Sociology (Paperback)) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 041510517X ISBN 13: 9780415105170

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

In recent times, especially under the influence of postmodernism, culture has often been construed as a critique of modernity. This wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of readings shows that such issues have always been at the centre of thought about the relationship between culture and civilization
The readings are divided into three sections, linking the civilization debate to political theory, to the cultural debate and to the sociology and anthropology. The substantial extracts included give students a rare chance to engage at length with classic texts to appreciate the nature of the battle between the Enlightenment and its critics which has shaped current thought.
Classical Readings on Culture and Civilisation presents essays from Immanuel Kant, Adam Ferguson, Thomas Jefferson, Alexis de Tocqueville, Friedrich von Schiller, Friedrich Nietzche, Georg Simmel, Thomas Mann, Sigmund Freud, Emile Durkheim, Marcel Mauss, Lucien Febvre, Alfred Weber, Robert E. Park and Norbert Elias.

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About the Author

John Rundell is Director of the Ashworth Centre for Social Theory at the University of Melbourne. His previous publications include Origins of Modernity and Rethinking Imagination. Stephen Mennell is Professor of Sociology at University College, Dublin, and is the author of Uses and Abuses of Social Theory, All Manners of Food and Norbert Elias: Civilization and the Human Self-image.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041510517X
• ISBN 13: 9780415105170
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Mennell Stephen