description: In this account of some of the central concepts in modern life and thought, Professor Jay investigates how language cannot fail to change and mediate experience. The topics he treats range from theory and experience to the meaning of multiculturalism and the dynamic of cultural subversion, and among the thinkers he engages are Bataille, Foucault, Adorno, Walter Benjamin and Lyotard.
language: English
title: Cultural Semantics: Keywords of Our Time
titlecomplete: Cultural Semantics: Keywords of Our Time
genres: Sociology
ratings_count: 6
series: Critical Perspectives on Modern Culture
publisher: University of Massachusetts Press