Difference in Time
Subtitle: A Critical Theory of Culture
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: June 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780275969752
Subjects: Cultural studies; Social & cultural anthropology; Social theory; Culture; Esthetics; Social Science; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; General; Sociology - General; Social Science / Sociology / General; Aesthetics; Critical theory; Differentiation (Sociology); Frankfurt school of sociology
First sentence: The critique of art and culture has lost a great deal of its legitimacy over the last few decades, both within the academy and in public discourse.
Description: "Arguing against the postmodern claim that systematic theory is unable to account for difference, Difference in Time: A Critical Theory of Culture adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of cultural judgement and social change.

With music as her model for theory, Hanrahan explores the role of time, the creation of meaning, the identification of difference, and the basis for judgements in cultural life, and in doing so provides a foundation for the critique of cultural objects and practices that avoids both the elitism of traditional aesthetics and the unwavering relativism of so much contemporary cultural analysis.

A broad-ranging and deeply philosophical work building on the scholarship of the Frankfurt School, Difference in Time: A Critical Theory of Culture drives home the need for critique in the evaluation and revision of the social knowledge and institutions of democratic civic life."--BOOK JACKET.