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'Written by some of the leading thinkers in the field, the book is an excellent resource for longstanding and contemporary issues in cultural theory. Comprehensive and well-written' - David Oswell, Goldsmiths College. This timely volume provides a framework for understanding the cultural turn in terms of the classical legacy, contemporary cultural theory and cultural analysis. It reveals the significance of Marxist humanism, Georg Simmel, the Frankfurt School, Stuart Hall and the Birmingham School, Giddens, Bauman, Foucault, Bourdieu and Baudrillard. Readers receive a dazzling, critical survey

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Sociocultural Viability: An Introduction -- Our Point of Departure: The Grid-Group Typology -- The Patterns Behind the Dimensions -- How Free to Choose What? -- Notes -- PART ONE THE THEORY -- Introduction to Part One: Against Dualism -- Notes -- 1 The Social Construction of Nature -- Five Myths of Nature -- The Hermit's Myth -- The Social Construction of Human Nature -- Notes -- 2 Making Ends Meet -- Reconciling Needs and Resources -- Limits to Reconciling Needs and Resources -- Five Strategies Mapped onto Five Ways of Life -- Only Five Management Strategies? -- Notes -- 3 Preferences -- Accounting for Tastes -- Deriving Preferences from Ways of Life -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Ringing the Changes -- Thinking About Surprise -- A Typology of Surprises -- Twelve Kinds of Change -- Loosening the Constraints -- Change Is Essential to Stability -- Notes -- 5 Instability of the Parts, Coherence of the Whole -- Traveling Hopefully, Never Arriving -- The Making and Breaking of Alliances -- Fatalism's Functions -- Why Pluralism Is Essential -- Cultural Theory Restated -- Notes -- PART TWO THE MASTERS -- Introduction to Part Two: The Indispensability of Functional Explanation -- Comparing Typologies of Viable Ways of Life -- Cultural-Functional Explanation -- Notes -- 6 Montesquieu, Comte, and Spencer -- Montesquieu -- Auguste Comte -- Herbert Spencer -- The Biological Parallel -- Cycling In and Out in Highland Burma -- Notes -- 7 Durkheim -- Young Emile and Master Durkheim -- The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life -- The Division of Labor in Society -- Suicide -- The Master, Not the Whippersnapper -- Notes -- 8 Marx -- Marx's Historical Materialism -- Mystification in Marxian and Cultural Theory

Philosophy in Cultural Theory boldly crosses disciplinary boundaries to offer a philosophical critique of cultural theory today. Drawing on the legacy of Walter Benjamin, Peter Osborne looks critically at central philosophical debates in cultural theory, such as:* the relationship between sign and image* the technological basis of cultural form* the conceptuality of art* the place of fantasy in human affairs.It will appeal to those in philosophy, cultural studies and art theory

A textbook-toolkit that teaches students the basics of cultural theory by unpacking its complexities with real-life examples and student focused pedagogy. Goes beyond showing how others have analysed and interpreted the world to demonstrate to students how to do cultural theory themselves

AbstractThis chapter reviews black critical and cultural theory under the following headings: 1. Introduction; 2. Cultural Studies (Kara Keeling, Queer Times, Black Futures, Jennifer C. Nash, Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality, and Tiffany Lethabo King, The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies); 3. History and Sociology (Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, and Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code); 4. Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (Therí Alyce Pickens, Black Madness :: Mad Blackness).