TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aguiluz Ibargüen,Maya
AU  - Beriain,Josetxo
TI  - A sociological genealogy of culture wars
T2  - Routledge advances in sociology
SN  - 9781032620145
AV  - HM1121 .A38 2024
U1  - 306 23/eng/20230811
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Culture conflict
KW  - CULTURE
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Civilization, Modern
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "This book analyzes the culture wars as those struggles for the monopoly of the legitimate representation of the world in the normative elucidation of controversial issues linked to values. Public culture in this context would consist of a set of complex classificatory systems of symbols and meanings that constitute a semantic field in permanent dynamic tension. In this work we analyze a whole series of lines of cultural conflict such as the social and semantic genesis of the different forms of "culture war" from the thesis of "modern polytheism" pointed out by Max Weber at the beginning of the 20th century to the national culture wars and the current global culture wars; the social production of truth and the clash with the epistemological tribalisms; the struggles between the new warrior gods, daimons and demons which emerge in modern societies; the struggles of fusion and fission on the symbolic battlefield of "Europe"; the struggles between "pioneers" and "gatekeepers" to define the limits of human nature; the struggles between utopias and dystopias that colonize the present future. This book will be of great help to anybody looking for key interpretations on the nature and structure of modern conflicts in contemporary societies"--
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