The Crisis of Contemporary Culture (Inaugural Lectures (University of Oxford) S.)
The Crisis of Contemporary Culture (Inaugural Lectures (University of Oxford) S.)
ISBN: 9780199513604
出版社: Oxford Univ Pr
出版年: 1995-10
定价: USD 10.50
装帧: Hardcover
内容简介
Professor Eagleton ranges widely over a number of topics of relevance to contemporary culture: the loss of a sense of corporate cultural identity in the contemporary crisis of `nationhood', and the factors responsible for this erosion; the conflict between a traditionalist conception of culture and a `postmodern' one; the assumed decline in cultural standards; the teaching of English in schools, and so on. He sets something of the history and current situation of Oxford English within this wider context, and outlines a programme of desirable reforms. He concludes his lecture with some reflections on poetry and philosophy, literary theory, multinational capitalism, the historical concepts of Walter Benjamin and one or two other topics.