Art and Social Theory

Art and Social Theory provides a comprehensive introduction to sociological studies of the arts. It examines the central debates of social theorists and sociologists about the place of the arts in society and the social significance of aesthetics. provides a comprehensive introduction to sociological study of art;

examines the central debates of social theorists and sociol...

Art and Social Theory provides a comprehensive introduction to sociological studies of the arts. It examines the central debates of social theorists and sociologists about the place of the arts in society and the social significance of aesthetics. provides a comprehensive introduction to sociological study of art;

examines the central debates of social theorists and sociologists about the place of the arts in society and the social significance of aesthetics;

discusses the meaning of the arts in relation to changing cultural institutions and socio-economic structures;

explores questions of aesthetic value and cultural politics, taste and social class, money and patronage, ideology and utopia, myth and popular culture, and the meaning of modernism and postmodernism;

presents lucid accounts of leading social theorists of the arts from Weber, Simmel, Benjamin, Kracauer and the Frankfurt School to Foucault, Bourdieu, Habermas, Baudrillard, Lyotard, Luhmann and Jameson.

作者简介

奥斯汀·哈灵顿，英国人，生于1970年10月4日。于剑桥大学获得学士、硕士学位；牛津大学获得博士学位。目前任教于德国埃尔福特大学(The univeisity of Erfurt)。发表论,著包括《现代社会理论概论》(Modern Social Theory: An Introduction)(牛津大学出版社，2005，编撰)，以及其他多篇论述社会理论与社会思想史的论文。