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Apr 2024
1h 11m

Where does culture come from?

THE LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS
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The word ‘culture’ now drags the term ‘wars’ in its wake, but this is too narrow an approach to a concept with a much more capacious history. In the closing LRB Winter Lecture for 2024, Terry Eagleton examines various aspects of that history – culture and power, culture and ethics, culture and critique, culture and ideology – in an attempt to broaden the arg ... Show More
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