Culture as Praxis (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)

by Zygmunt Bauman

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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 false certainties and gross theorems that dominated much of the post-war period. This is Bauman at his best, at his most subtle and his most searching.

  • ISBN10 1848609280
  • ISBN13 9781848609280
  • Publish Date 15 December 1998
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Sage Publications Ltd
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 208
  • Language English