Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides) (Paperback)

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This comprehensive volume allows students to quickly and accurately come to grips with the key terms encountered in cultural theory today. In more than 350 clear and succinct entries, Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts provides an up-to-date and authoritative introduction to the essential terms, theories and major concerns of this complex field. It covers topics such as:Deconstruction , Epistemology, Feminism, Hermeneutics, Holism, Methodology, Postmodernism, Semiotics, Sociobiology and many more.

In addition to the suggestions for further reading which accompany all major entries, this work also features a useful bibliography of essential texts in cultural theory.

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• Paperback: 496 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 2 edition (July 5, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415284260
• ISBN-13: 978-0415284264
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars An Idea Whose Time Has Come, April 14, 2009

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This review is from: Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides) (Paperback)

The most comprehensive, thorough, insightful, quick reference to Cultural (as distinguished from and including what used to be known as Critical) Theory that I've come across. Well-sized, it's ready-to-hand, organized dictionary style under the topics of Cultural Theory which range across all disciplines, made here easily accessible to the reader in a tightly knit format. The book has an extensive bibliography and index. A must for every scholar's personal library (even those expert in the field will find it useful as a teaching tool - great for handouts), and a go-to-first guide for anyone who needs to understand the often complex, elusive, gnomic terminology of the post-modern intellectual environment. The explanations are concise, yet not thin. The book as a whole exhibits a fine sense or proportion and judgement.