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Just as we are not self-sufficient natural beings, we are not inherently cultural beings either. In order to survive, we have to close the gap between us and nature with culture. With his usual fluent and striking narrative, Eagleton traces the idea of culture, to which we are so obliged, from past to present. While meticulously examining and discussing different cultural interpretations, it draws attention to social designs and the determinacy of ideology on the other. Eagleton, who also reveals how culture, which is not inherently political in nature, has become a tool of politics in the processes of domination/resistance, for example, says that Western culture, which is trying to universalize itself, is interfering with the works of other cultures with the idea that the stability of each component is required for the development of the whole, as in the classical work of art in the new world order. It reveals his meddling and his attempt to organize the world he considers his home as he wishes. It makes us watch how the saying "Nothing human is foreign to me" has been transformed into "Every underdeveloped region on earth can pose a threat to our interests", in a way that has moved far from its former elegance, and it inevitably makes us think. What is the place of culture in religion, nationalism, culturalism, elitism, naturalism, nation-state, capitalism, modernism and postmodernism? How do all these understandings interpret culture? While civilization, identity and commercial relations are perceived as positive concepts, how can they be the cause of the biggest culture wars? Is the fate of the concept of culture either to be concretized or to be reduced? "How much blood and brutality lies beneath all the 'good' things!" Nietzsche, in a sense, gives the shortest and most striking summary of the culture wars. Yet no culture can be entirely negative. Because, even if it is to achieve his evil goals, he always has to talk about virtue and make room for judgment, initiative and intelligence. In this sense, all cultures contradict themselves, and while contradicting themselves, they offer us reasons for hope as well as despair. The aim of cultural policies should be to turn our hope into reality. Eagleton, one of the most influential writers of literary criticism and criticism of "literary criticism" today, examines the modern world's volatile as well as elitist myth of "being cultured" and "cultured man" in a sharp and ironic way from different angles such as crisis, war, difference and nature. interprets it this way.
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 176

Year of Printing: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Details Publications

First Print Year: 2005

Number of Pages: 176

Language Turkish