In:
Comparative Studies in Society and History, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 35, No. 4 ( 1993-10), p. 726-745
Abstract:
Culture, one of the keywords of our time, became common, as Raymond Williams has suggested, in Western discourse in the early nineteenth century. Subsequently, pushed by both anthropological and literary-aesthetic studies and extended to global dimensions, the concept of culture, which supposedly expresses primordial naturalness and the irrational, is often played off against its counterpart from the beginning, the calculated mechanicalness of civilization, or the rational. More recently, in the burgeoning field of cultural studies, the boundaries between the two terms have become increasingly blurred. Now civilization, too, is seen as the domain of the irrational, masking itself in socalled rational representation.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0010-4175
,
1475-2999
DOI:
10.1017/S0010417500018685
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date:
1993
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2010834-5
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202331-3
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0
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10
