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Culture, class, and critical theory : between Bourdieu and the Frankfurt school /

Culture, Class, and Critical Theory develops a theory of culture that explains how ideas create and legitimate class inequalities in modern society. This theory is developed through a critique and comparison of the powerful ideas on culture offered by Pierre Bourdieu and the Frankfurt School thinker...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gartman, David, 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Routledge 2012.
Series:Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 78.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Modern culture as mass unity or ranked diversity
  • Reification of consumer products : a general history illustrated by the American automobile
  • Culture as class symbolization or mass reification? : a critique of Bordieu's Distinction
  • Three ages of the automobile : the cultural logics of the car
  • Why modern architecture emerged in Europe, not America : the new class and the aesthetics of technocracy
  • Bordieau's theory of cultural change : explication, application, critique
  • Bordieu and Adorno : converging theories of culture and inequality.