Culture

Author's name: Terry Eagleton Publisher: Dar Al-Mada for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2018 Literary classification: Literary - Intellectual study Brief about the book: Culture by Terry Eagleton... The word (culture) remained one of the most problematic words in terms of concept and applications, and cultural studies — which is considered an epistemological field where anthropology, sociology, history of ideas, linguistics, folklore, and institutional government policies intersect — remained a battleground where the echoes of intense intellectual battles did not fade, especially after World War II, where culture became a means of soft power in the Cold War, then turned into a weapon of globalization that seeks to expand the scope of symbolic capitalism supported by material industries that elevate the status of advanced economies and establish their dominance on the global stage. Below, I present a translation of the book (Culture) published by Yale University in 2016 by the renowned British author (Terry Eagleton), a literary critic, theorist, and researcher in the field of cultural studies and cultural policies. Eagleton has published many books, some of which have been translated into Arabic (including his memoir published by Dar Al-Mada titled "The Gatekeeper" in 2015). It should be noted here that this book (Culture) is an independent and distinguished work from another book Eagleton published earlier titled (The Idea of Culture), which has been translated into Arabic.