The cultural return [[electronic resource] /] / Susan Hegeman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910809892403321
• Autore: Hegeman Susan <1964->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2012
• ISBN: 1-280-11575-0; 9786613520753; 0-520-95182-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (171 p.)
• Collana: Flash points ; ; 7
• Disciplina: 306.01
• Soggetti: Culture - Study and teaching; Popular culture - Study and teaching; Mass media and culture; Critical theory; Culture and globalization
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Cultural Discontents -- 2. Haunted by Mass Culture -- 3. A Brief History of the Cultural Turn -- 4. Globalization, Culture, and Crises of Disciplinarity -- 5. The Santa Claus Problem: Culture, Belief, Modernity -- 6. The Cultural Return -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This insightful book tracks the concept of culture across a range of scholarly disciplines and much of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries-years that saw the emergence of new fields and subfields (cultural studies, the new cultural history, literary new historicism, as well as ethnic and minority studies) and came to be called "the cultural turn." Since the 1990's, however, the idea of culture has fallen out of scholarly favor. Susan Hegeman engages with a diversity of disciplines, including anthropology, literary studies, sociology, philosophy, psychology, and political science, to historicize the rise and fall of the cultural turn and to propose ways that culture may still be a vital concept in the global present.