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Culture

A Reformer's Science
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This major work, by one of the key figures in cultural studies, critically examines the theory, history and practice of culture. It is a comprehensive review of the main debates in cultural studies that is grounded in an historical account of the modern relations between culture and government. The book illuminates the relationship between culture and the social, as well as offering an important assessment of the role of intellectuals in relation to the organization of contemporary cultural life. Culture: A Reformer's Science is a major reappraisal of cultural studies; an engagement with the relations of culture and policy; and a critical examination of the conditions for intellectual work.
PART ONE: THEORY Towards a Pragmatics for Cultural Studies Being `in the True' of Cultural Studies Cultural Studies The Foucault Effect PART TWO: HISTORY Culture A Reformer's Science The Multiplication of Culture's Utility Regulated Restlessness Museums, Liberal Government and the Historical Sciences PART THREE: PRACTICE Culture, Power, Resistance Culture and Policy Out in the Open Reflections on the History and Practice of Cultural Studies
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