In Near Ruins: Cultural Theory at the End of the Century

by Nicholas B. Dirks

Book Overview

A group of leading scholars considers the current state of cultural analysis.

If culture is suspect, what of cultural theory? At a moment when culture's traditional caretakers-humanism, philosophy, anthropology, and the nation-state-are undergoing crisis and mutation, this volume charts the tensions and contradictions in the development and deployment of the concept of culture.

Skeptical of the concept of culture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816631239
• ISBN13: 9780816631230
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"