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Over 25 years ago, Raymond Williams Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society set the standard for how we understand and use the language of culture and society. Now, three luminaries in the field of cultural studies have assembled a volume that builds on and updates Williams classic, reflecting the transformation in culture and society since its publication. New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society is a state–of–the–art reference for students, teachers and culture vultures everywhere. Assembles a stellar team of internationally renowned and interdisciplinary social thinkers and theorists Showcases 142 signed entries from art , commodity , and fundamentalism to youth , utopia , the virtual , and the West that capture the practices, institutions, and debates of contemporary society Builds on and updates Raymond Williams s classic Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, by reflecting the transformation in culture and society over the last 25 years Includes a bibliographic resource to guide research and cross–referencing The book is supported by a website: www.blackwellpublishing.com/newkeywords.
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"We think in words. A careful discussion of the words we use helps us to think more clearly about modern western society. All academic libraries catering for the humanities or social sciences should consider requiring a reference copy, as should those public libraries which still feel their mission is to assist their readers in thinking clearly, rather than just to provide them with entertainment." Martin Guha, King′s College London
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Raymond Williams Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society is justly renowned for its role in providing a whole generation of students and intellectuals with trusty and cogent distillations of the language of cultural studies. First published in 1976, the text played a pivotal role in both academic and public understandings of culture and society and the relations between them. New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society updates Williams s classic text by reflecting the transformation in culture and society over the last quarter century.
New Keywords includes many of Williams s original entries, but with new discussions of their history and use over the last 25 years. Several other entries encapsulate the practices, institutions, and debates of contemporary society. The editors have assembled an international team of scholars to write from a variety of disciplines and interdisciplinary fields – cultural and media studies, feminism, post–colonial and subaltern studies, the history of science, sociology, gay and lesbian studies. The result is a state–of–the art reference for students, teachers and public intellectuals everywhere.
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- PublisherWiley–Blackwell
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0631225684
- ISBN 13 9780631225683
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages456
- EditorBennett Tony, Grossberg Lawrence, Morris Meaghan
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