{"product_id":"sketches-in-the-theory-of-culture-hardback-9781509528295","title":"Sketches in the Theory of Culture (Hardback) 9781509528295","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSketches in the Theory of Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eZygmunt Bauman (Author), Katarzyna Bartoszynska (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509528295, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 September 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e300 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.612 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eSketches in the Theory of Culture\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable work by all measures. Written by Zygmunt Bauman when he was still a professor in Poland, and originally intended for publication in 1968, it was suppressed by the Polish government in the wave of repression following the protests in March of that year. For decades, it was thought to be lost. Astonishingly, it survived in the form of an uncorrected set of proofs which was recently discovered, and is the basis of this edition. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow published in English for the first time, this book sheds new light on Bauman’s work prior to his emigration and illuminates the intellectual climate of Poland in the late 1960s. Bauman’s pursuit of a semiotic theory of culture includes a discussion of processes of individualization and the intensification of global ties, anticipating themes that became central to his later work. Though this book stands as a testament to a historical moment, it also transcends it. ‘[W]e live in an age that seems, for the first time in human history, to acknowledge cultural multiplicity as an innate and fixed feature of the world, one which gives rise to new forms of identity that are at ease with plurality, like a fish in water’, writes Bauman – a statement that is as true today as it was when he penned it in the 1960s. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSketches in the Theory of Culture\u003c\/i\u003e is a strikingly prescient reflection on culture and society by one of the most influential social thinkers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It will appeal to students and scholars across the social sciences and humanities and to the many readers of Bauman’s work.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Message in a Bottle: on the Recovered Work of \u003ci\u003eZygmunt Bauman\u003c\/i\u003e vii\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDariusz Brzeziński\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the Author 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Sign and Culture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI The Origins of the Semiotic Theory of Culture, or the Crisis of Cultural Anthropology 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eII Towards a Semiotic Theory of Culture 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIII Man and Sign 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIV The Problem of Universals and the Semiotic Theory of Culture 94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eV Some Research Problems in the Semiotic Theory of Culture 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Culture and Social Structure\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI Cultural and Extra-Cultural Organization of Society 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eII Economics, Culture, and Typologies of Societies 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIII Cultural Determinants of the Research Process 203\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIV Three Observations About Problems of Contemporary Education 216\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eV Masses, Classes, Elites: Semiotics and the Re-Imagination of the Sociological Function of Culture 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword 251\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eZygmunt Bauman, 2016\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 269\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441792315672,"sku":"9781509528295","price":46.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509528295.jpg?v=1785025561","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sketches-in-the-theory-of-culture-hardback-9781509528295","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}