Intensive Culture: Social Theory, Religion & Contemporary Capitalism
Scott M LashContemporary culture, today's capitalism - our global information society - is ever-expanding-- is ever more extensive. And yet we seem to be experiencing a parallel phenomenon which can only be characterized as intensive.
This book is dedicated to the study of such intensive culture. While extensive culture is a culture of the same: a culture of fixed equivalence; intensive culture is a culture of difference, of in-equivalence – the singular. Intensities generate what we encounter. They are virtuals or possibilities, always in process and always in movement.
Lash carefully defines and distinguishes the intensive from the extensive tracking this change through key areas of social life including:
- Sociology
- Religion
- Philosophy
- Language
- Politics
- Communication
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Année:
2010
Edition:
1
Editeur::
SAGE Publications Ltd
Langue:
english
Pages:
256
ISBN 10:
1412945178
ISBN 13:
9781412945172
Collection:
Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
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PDF, 2.29 MB
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english, 2010