The Logic of Culture: Authority and Identity in the Modern Era

by William Ray

Book Overview

In contrast to other books on 'culture', this study does not provide a history of the concept, it proposes an analysis of what might be called the underlying grammar or 'logic' of the category. Ray argues that the disparate models, ideologies, and ethics that have been advanced in the name of culture - or in opposition to it - all derive from a fundamental shift in our ways of thinking about law, authority, and social life that occurred well before...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631213449
• ISBN13: 9780631213444
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"