Johan Fornäs - Defending Culture: Conceptual Foundations and Contemporary Debate
Fornäs, J. (2017). Defending Culture: Conceptual Foundations and Contemporary Debate, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN: 978-3-319-86256-9
UNESCO’s famous definition of culture states that culture refers to ‘the set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of society or a social group, that encompasses not only art and literature, but lifestyles, ways of living together, value systems, traditions, and beliefs’. While this definition is very broad, it is by no means exhaustive or final. The definition and meaning of culture have been debated for at least two hundred years, but the concept is still characterised by a variety of understandings around which there is no clear consensus.
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