Culture's Vanities
David Steigerwald
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Description for Culture's Vanities
Paperback. Series: American Intellectual Culture. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 179 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
Americans want it both ways. They are committed to cultural diversity, yet demand an endless variety of cheap consumer goods from a global system that destroys distinct ways of life. Americans have papered over this paradox by embracing the rhetoric of diversity and multiculturalism, hiding the extent to which they have accepted homogenized ways of working and living. In this groundbreaking work, David Steigerwald exposes this paradox and examines how culture, rather than economics or politics, became the framework for understanding human affairs. Steigerwald criticizes contemporary cultural studies and multiculturalism, showing how they lead, not to true understanding ... Read more
Americans want it both ways. They are committed to cultural diversity, yet demand an endless variety of cheap consumer goods from a global system that destroys distinct ways of life. Americans have papered over this paradox by embracing the rhetoric of diversity and multiculturalism, hiding the extent to which they have accepted homogenized ways of working and living. In this groundbreaking work, David Steigerwald exposes this paradox and examines how culture, rather than economics or politics, became the framework for understanding human affairs. Steigerwald criticizes contemporary cultural studies and multiculturalism, showing how they lead, not to true understanding ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
Series
American Intellectual Culture
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780742511972
SKU
V9780742511972
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99-15
About David Steigerwald
David Steigerwald is associate professor of history at Ohio State University, Marion. He is the author of Wilsonian Idealism in America and The Sixties and the End of Modern America.
Reviews for Culture's Vanities
Bemoaning the ubiquitous commodification of culture in our age of globalization—and thus culture's waning power to effect social change—Steigerwald calls for a 'vigorous cosmopolitanism' that finds its strength not through amorphous 'cultural resistance,' but through concrete political struggles against exploitative global economic forces. Clear-headed and provocative, Culture's Vanities boldly recasts William Morris's aesthetic-democratic vision for our time.
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