Description
Product ID: | 9780571272990 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The Meaning of Culture |
Authors: | Author: John Cowper Powys |
Page Count: | 320 |
Subjects: | Philosophy, Philosophy, Cultural studies, Cultural studies |
Description: | Divided in two parts, this book includes: Analysis of Culture which deals with, in separate chapters, Philosophy, Literature, Poetry, Painting and Religion, and Application of Culture which covers Happiness, Love, Nature, The Art of Reading, Human Relations, Destiny, and Obstacles to Culture. John Cowper Powys could never be straightforward or orthodox but here he sets off with a useful purpose. ''The aim of this book,'' he declares, ''is to narrow down a vague and somewhat evasive conception, which hitherto, like ''''aristocracy'''' or ''''liberty'''', has come to imply a number of contradictory and even paradoxical elements, and to give it, not, of course, a purely logical form, but a concrete, particular, recognizable form, malleable and yielding enough and relative enough, but with a definite and quite unambiguous temper, tone, quality, atmosphere, of its own.'' The book is in two parts: Analysis of Culture which deals with, in separate chapters, Philosophy, Literature, Poetry, Painting and Religion: Application of Culture which covers Happiness, Love, Nature, The Art of Reading, Human Relations, Destiny and Obstacles to Culture. |
Imprint Name: | Faber & Faber |
Publisher Name: | Faber & Faber |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2010-10-21 |