Includes bibliographical references pages (159-168) and index.
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1. What is culture? -- 2. Culture and cult -- 3. Enlightement -- 4. The aesthetic gaze -- 5. Romanticism -- 6. Fantasy, imagination and the salesman -- 7. Modernism -- 8. Avant-garde and kitsch -- 9. Surface and surfeit -- 10. Yoofanasia -- 11. Idle hands -- 12. The devil's work -- 13. Conclusions.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"In this book, Roger Scruton argues for the religious origin of culture in all its forms, and mounts a defence of the 'high culture' of our civilization against its radical and 'deconstructionist' critics. He offers a theory of pop culture, a panegyric to Baudelaire, a few reasons why Wagner is just as great as his critics fear him to be, and a raspberry to 'Cool Britannia'. A must for all people who are fed up to their tightly clenched front teeth with Derrida. Foucault, Oasis and Richard Rogers."--Jacket.