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Zygmunt Bauman
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Culture as Praxis (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) |
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English |
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Paperback |
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208 |
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1998-12-28 |
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0761959890 |
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SAGE Publications Ltd |
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0.71 pounds |
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9.06 x 0.43 x 6.06 inches |
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1 |
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Product Description
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 fals
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