| Physical description |
ix, 262 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Cultural & media policy. |
|
Cultural & media policy.
|
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-255) and index. |
| Summary |
This major work, by one of the key figures in Cultural Studies, is a critical examination of the theory, history and practice of culture. Written with exceptional lucidity, it is a comprehensive review of the principal debates in Cultural Studies that is grounded in an historical account of the modern relations between culture and government. This work illuminates the relation between culture and the social, as well as offering an important assessment of the role of intellectuals in relation to the organization of contemporary cultural life. Comprehensive in scope, commanding in its scholarship, Culture: A Reformer's Science is a major reappraisal of Cultural Studies; an engagement with the relations of culture and policy; and a critical examination of the conditions for intellectual work. |
| Subject |
Culture.
|
|
Culture -- Study and teaching.
|
|
Cultural policy.
|
| ISBN |
076195922X (hardback) |
|
0761959238 (paperback) |
|
