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The Return of Cultural Strife

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by Stanley Aronowitz

Wesleyan University Press

Due/Published March 1993, 291 pages, paper

ISBN 0819562629

The question of culture has become central for a new generation of scholars raised in a world of television and mass production. At the same time debates about culture have become a point of reference for criticism of current trends in academia and society, variously defended or derided on the grounds of 'multi-culturalism, ' 'canonicity, ' and 'political correctness.' In his re-examination of these debates, Stanley Aronowitz traces the history of the cultural issue--in both its British and American manifestation--and relates it to the contemporary rethinking of the nature of knowledge and culture.