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Critique as a Modern Social Phenomenon: The Critical Society
Author(s): Tom Boland (Author)
- Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 1 Feb. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 432 pages
- ISBN-10: 077344548X
- ISBN-13: 9780773445482
Book Description
Rather than use critique as a mode of investigating social phenomenon, this book analyses critique as a social phenomenon. Critique is both constitutive of modernity and exceedingly diverse, and not only that but widely taken for granted in scholarly communities. The author analyzes critique as a moving force in history, part of the dynamic of capitalism and consumerism, a recurring trope in the media from all and any political positions, and as a common-place even of popular culture.
