Origin of Cultural Turn: An Examination of Contemporary Western Cultural Concepts, Cultural Theory, and Cultural Studies

Author: Xiao Junming
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: This book takes cultural turn as the starting point, with cultural concepts, cultural theories, and cultural studies as the objects of study. It explores the cultural cognitive process through which Western academia has achieved its cultural turn, which is also the cultural context in which the cultural turn has taken place. Following the overall development of Western academia, the author traces the continuously deepening insights that Western humanities scholars have proposed on cultural issues over the past century. At the same time, taking culture as a concept, culture as theoretical discourse, and culture as research discourse as approaches, it organizes and interprets the different and even opposing views on cultural issues proposed by various schools of thought.