Culture and Anarchy

Culture and Anarchy
ISBN-10
0300058675
ISBN-13
9780300058673
Series
Culture and Anarchy
Category
Social Science
Pages
258
Language
English
Published
1994-01-01
Publisher
Yale University Press
Author
Matthew Arnold

Description

Culture and Anarchy remains a central text of the Westem intellectual tradition, articulating many of the issues around which the modern debate about cultural politics revolves: the nature of the State; the concept of freedom as governed by reason, in contrast to untrammelled liberty; the place of religion in society; the very idea of culture as an inward operation of the mind. A measure of the work's permanent influence is the number of current terms first coined in its pages, terms such as Philistines, Barbarians, and the famous definition of culture as the best that has been thought and said. Accused in some quarters of cultural elitism, Arnold's ideas continue to occupy the foreground of the debate, and for this reason the edition includes specially commissioned essays which set the text within contemporary, multicultural perspectives.

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