Culture as Praxis

Culture as Praxis - Theory, Culture & Society

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In this major work, Zygmunt Bauman seeks to classify the meanings of culture. He distinguishes between culture as a concept, culture as a structure and culture as praxis and analyzes the different ways in which culture has been used in each of these settings. For Bauman, culture is a living, changing aspect of human interaction which must be understood and studied as a universal of human life. At the heart of his approach is the proposition that culture is inherently ambivalent.

With a major new introduction to this new edition, this classic work emerges as a crucial link in the development of Bauman′s thought. By his own admission, it was the first of his books to grope towards a new kind of social theory, in contrast to the false certainties and gross theorems that dominated much of the post-war period. This is Bauman at his best, at his most subtle and his most searching.

Book information

ISBN: 9780761959885
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Imprint: Sage
Pub date:
Edition: New Edition
DEWEY: 306.01
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 148
Weight: 442g
Height: 243mm
Width: 162mm
Spine width: 17mm