{"product_id":"culture-9780300218794","title":"Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of cultures value  Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human. Defining culture and pinpointing its role in our lives is not  however  so straightforward. Terry Eagleton  one of our foremost literary and cultural critics  is uniquely poised to take on the challenge. In this keenly analytical and acerbically funny book  he explores how culture and our conceptualizations of it have evolved over the last two centuriesfrom rarified sphere to humble practices  and from a bulwark against industrialisms encroaches to present-day capitalisms most profitable export. Ranging over art and literature as well as philosophy and anthropology  and major but somewhat \"unfashionable\" thinkers like Johann Gottfried Herder and Edmund Burke as well as T. S. Eliot  Matthew Arnold  Raymond Williams  and Oscar Wilde  Eagleton provides a cogent overview of culture set firmly in its historical and theoretical contexts  illuminating its collusion with colonialism  nationalism  the decline of religion  and the rise of and rule over the \"uncultured\" masses. Eagleton also examines culture today  lambasting the commodification and co-option of a force that  properly understood  is a vital means for us to cultivate and enrich our social lives  and can even provide the impetus to transform civil society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648350347317,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300218796","price":33.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300218794.jpg?v=1781716823","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/culture-9780300218794","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}