Cultural Semantics: Keywords of Our Time

by Martin Jay

Book Overview

A selection of Martin Jay's recent writings on contemporary thought and culture, this is a book about ideas that matter--and about why ideas matter. Borrowing from Flaubert's notion of a dictionary of "received ideas" and Raymond Williams's explorations of the "keywords" of the modern age, Jay investigates some of the central concepts by which we currently organize our thoughts and lives. His topics range from "theory" and "experience" to the meaning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558491163
• ISBN13: 9781558491168
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher