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What is Wrong with Us? : Essays in Cultural Pathology.
Can any of us entirely banish from our hearts and minds grave misgivings about the condition of the culture we now inhabit? Expressions of those misgivings are mostly unheard in public forums, ignored in the dominant media, and, if noticed at all, dismissed by state-supported bureaucracies and comme...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Luton, Bedfordshire :
Andrews UK,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Front matter; Title page; Publisher information; Preface; Notes on Contributors; Body matter; Introduction: The Disutility of Utilitarianism; The Cultural Environment: Social and Built; Built to Destroy: The Nihilism of Modern Architecture; The Changing Profession of the Structural Engineer; The World in a Form of Words: Art in the Community; Politics, Values, Education and Language; British Values; Politics as Language: Language as Politics; The Multiversity Has Lost Its Mind; Bogus Radicalism, Cultural Frivolity and Criticism; Avant-Garde Lite and Magical Thinking.
- State Art and Its CommissarsTurner in Our Time: La Trahison des Clercs; Dangerous Nonsense: The Corporate Takeover of the Queen's English and the Cost to Art; Criticism and the Collapse of Culture; The Exaltation of Trivia and the Abasement of the Transcendent; Celebrity Culture: ' ... a fantasy and trick of fame' (Hamlet); Conserving the Sacred in a Virtual Kingdom; Back matter; Also available.