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" Modern culture / "
Roger Scruton.
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BL
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847668
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| Main Entry
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Scruton, Roger.
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| Title & Author
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Modern culture /\ Roger Scruton.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Continuum,, 2005.
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Continuum compacts
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xi, 173 pages ;; 20 cm
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| ISBN
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0826485448
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: 0826494447
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: 9780826485441
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: 9780826494443
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Includes bibliographical references pages (159-168) and index.
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| Contents
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1. What is culture? -- 2. Culture and cult -- 3. Enlightement -- 4. The aesthetic gaze -- 5. Romanticism -- 6. Fantasy, imagination and the salesman -- 7. Modernism -- 8. Avant-garde and kitsch -- 9. Surface and surfeit -- 10. Yoofanasia -- 11. Idle hands -- 12. The devil's work -- 13. Conclusions.
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"In this book, Roger Scruton argues for the religious origin of culture in all its forms, and mounts a defence of the 'high culture' of our civilization against its radical and 'deconstructionist' critics. He offers a theory of pop culture, a panegyric to Baudelaire, a few reasons why Wagner is just as great as his critics fear him to be, and a raspberry to 'Cool Britannia'. A must for all people who are fed up to their tightly clenched front teeth with Derrida. Foucault, Oasis and Richard Rogers."--Jacket.
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Culture-- Philosophy.
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Culture-- Philosophy.
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Cultuurfilosofie.
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Moderniteit.
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| Dewey Classification
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306
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HM621.S38 2005
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08.42bcl
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