In September 1914, twenty-five of Britain's most distinguished authors met with the war propaganda bureau to discuss how they could defend civilization against the savagery of the invading "Huns". In The Great War of Words Peter Buitenhuis tells the hitherto unknown story of the…
When 'revolution' becomes a recurring theme in mainstream culture, where do we look for the tools for a critical engagement with the present? Addressing the link between allegory and cultural critique in contemporary culture and resisting the thematic abstraction of sexy, fast r…
Introduction: culture as problem -- Culture/race/nature: Arnold, Tylor -- (Civil) society/nature: Hobbes, Locke, Macaulay -- Imagination/imitation: Shelley, Hobbes, Macaulay, Kipling, Malinowski -- Culture/s: Williams, Leavis, Spencer -- "Race"/cultures: Du Bois, Fletcher, Boas,…
First impressions -- Sheep -- Counting sheep in the belly of the wolf -- What was pastoral (again)? more versions (otium for sheep) -- Oranges -- Invisible Inc. (time for oranges) -- Gold you can eat (on theft) -- Yeast -- Bread and stones (on bubbles) -- Erasures.
The author explores the influence of therapies in Anglo-American societies. He questions the thesis that the therapeutic turn of people nowadays represents an enlightened shift towards emotions, drawing on developments in popular culture, political and social life. Kritische an…
"Therapy Culture explores the powerful influence of therapeutic imperative in Anglo-American societies. In recent decades virtually every sphere of life has become subject to a new emotional culture. Professor Furedi suggests that the recent cultural turn towards the realm of th…
Iconoclasm is not a barbaric act which takes place somewhere else but is instead a central strand of Anglo-American modernity. Our horror at the destruction of art derives in part from the fact that we did, and still do, that. This is most obviously true of England's iconoclasti…
Iconoclasm is not a barbaric act which takes place somewhere else but is instead a central strand of Anglo-American modernity. Our horror at the destruction of art derives in part from the fact that we did, and still do, that. This is most obviously true of England's iconoclasti…
Iconoclasm is not a barbaric act which takes place somewhere else but is instead a central strand of Anglo-American modernity. Our horror at the destruction of art derives in part from the fact that we did, and still do, that. This is most obviously true of England's iconoclasti…
