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[ecrea] new book: Defending Culture

Sat Nov 25 00:26:23 GMT 2017





New book!

*Defending Culture*
*Conceptual Foundations and Contemporary Debate*

Johan Fornäs

Palgrave Macmillan 2017, 256 pages, www.palgrave.com/9783319578095 <http://www.palgrave.com/9783319578095>

This new book on the concept of culture first traces the main notions of culture, analysing their histories, uses and contradictions. Then follows an investigation of how the hermeneutic concept of culture as signifying practice or meaning-making mediation has been challenged by various posthumanists and neomaterialists, from Sontag and Foucault to Latour, Barad, Luhmann, Kittler and Gumbrecht. Insights from such contestations are finally incorporated to update the critical-hermeneutic notion of culture by stressing the dynamic interface of meaning, mediation and materiality. This should be highly relevant to all who are interested in cultural theory, cultural research and cultural studies.


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