The Structure of Modern Cultural Theory

by Thomas Osborne

Book Overview

What is the point of cultural theory? Do we even know what it is? This book is at once an introduction to, and, broadly, a defence of modern cultural theory understood as a particular constellation of inquiry, one that may be all the more important in our postmodern times the more seemingly irrelevant it is to current fashions.

Focusing on the work of Theodor Adorno, Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault the book argues that in spite of their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719086469
• ISBN13: 9780719086465
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"