description: Professor Eagleton ranges widely over a number of topics of relevance to contemporary the loss of a sense of corporate cultural identity in the contemporary crisis of `nationhood', and the factors responsible for this erosion; the conflict between a traditionalist conception ofculture and a `postmodern' one; the assumed decline in cultural standards; the teaching of English in schools, and so on. He sets something of the history and current situation of Oxford English within this wider context, and outlines a programme of desirable reforms. He concludes his lecture withsome reflections on poetry and philosophy, literary theory, multinational capitalism, the historical concepts of Walter Benjamin and one or two other topics.
language: English
title: The Crisis of Contemporary Culture
titlecomplete: The Crisis of Contemporary Culture
publisher: Oxford Univ Pr