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The surplus of culture
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ISBN: 128330869X 9786613308696 1443832537 9781443832533 9781283308694 9781443832137 1443832138 Year: 2011 Publisher: Newcastle Cambridge Scholars

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This multifaceted volume presents the elusive surplus of culture in the spotlight of theory and academic practice. Despite its overtly economic implications, the concept alludes to the added value of sense, common sense and nonsense which is represented a


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Taming Risk
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ISBN: 1443856088 9781443856089 1443853178 9781443853170 9781443853170 Year: 2014 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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This interdisciplinary and multifaceted work investigates the traumatic character of (late) modernity from the perspectives of risk and trust regarded as correlates to human actions, as well as forms of social consciousness and cultural production in contemporary, post-industrial societies. In this way, the book gestures towards an interpretative framework in which modern social structures and systems may be effectively conceptualised in an overtly phenomenological context that entails the un...

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