Intellectuals and Cultural Policy

List of contents

Introduction 1. Oliver Bennett: Intellectuals, Romantics and Cultural Policy 4. Charles Acland: Harold Innis, Cultural Policy and Residual Media 5. Bill Buxton: Fernand Dumont and the Vicissitudes of Cultural Policy in Québec 6. Jim McGuigan: Richard Hoggart – Public Intellectual 8. Eleonora Belfiore: The Unacknowledged Legacy: Plato, the Republic and Cultural Policy 11. Laurie Koloski: The Urge to Judge: Intellectuals and Communism in Postwar Poland, Past and Present 13. Jeremy Ahearne: Public Intellectuals and Cultural Policy in France 14. David Looseley: Intellectuals and Cultural Policy in France: Antoine Hennion and the sociology of music

About the author

Dr Jeremy Ahearne is Reader in the Department of French Studies at the University of Warwick. Professor Oliver Bennett is the Director of the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies at the University of Warwick.

Summary

From the English Romantics to Lenin’s wife, from Plato to Herbert Schiller, this book offers new insights into how intellectuals from Europe, Canada and North America have sought over time to assert their cultural values in public life.

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy Bennett Ahearne
• Assisted by: Jeremy Ahearne (Editor), Ahearne Jeremy (Editor), Oliver Bennett (Editor), Bennett Oliver (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.04.2015
• EAN: 9781138864634
• ISBN: 978-1-138-86463-4
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; History, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Humanities