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Bloomsbury(Manohar) A Dictionary of Cultural Theorists by Ellis Cashmore
If cultural theory is a minefield, this book is a route map through thatfield. Prepared by an international team of scholars, the entries inthis book provide accessible introductions to the key cultural theoristsof the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Over 200 of the leadingfigures in the study of culture are listed, together with their keyconcepts and main arguments, their major works and formative influences.An extensive introduction sets the entries in the appropriateintellectual and historical contexts, and each entry provides links toother seminal figures in the study of culture. as well as a guide tofurther reading. The dictionary covers a wide spectrum of theorists fromfields such as philosophy, economics, sociology, literary criticism,linguistics, psychology and other disciplines from the humanities andsocial sciences.