Being Cultured by Angus Kennedy

Being Cultured by Angus Kennedy

Today culture is everywhere as maybe never before. We read culture reviews, watch culture shows, live in Cities of Culture, and witness the Cultural Olympiad. Government, museums and arts councils worry that we are not getting enough culture and shape policy around notions of art and culture for all. Access and inclusion are in. Difficulty and exclusivity out. In Being Cultured: in defence of discrimination Angus Kennedy asks if this explosion of culture, and the breaking down of distinctions between high and low culture, has emancipated us or left us adrift without cultural moorings. Is it true that all cultures are equal? Is cultural diversity a good thing? Is it unacceptably elitist to insist on the highest standards of judgment? To argue that some cultural works stand the test of time and some don't? Can anyone dare to call themselves cultured anymore? Might it even be the case that culture no longer actually means anything much to us? That our nervousness about exercising discrimination and good taste - the erosion of cultural authority - might have left us with a culture that may be open to all, but lacking in depth? This provocative book strikes a blow for discrimination in culture and argues that there is a responsibility on each of us as individuals to always be becoming more cultured beings: our best selves. Kennedy revisits the tradition - from Cicero to Kant, Arnold to Arendt - of autonomy in culture: both in the sense of its intrinsic value and how it rests on our individual freedom - quite apart from state and society - to discriminate and judge. A freedom, without which, we risk a widening culture of consensus and conformity. But which is the constitutive element of a world in common.

With his sizzling new thriller suspense novel, A Trillion Dollar Man, Angus Kennedy has rolled out THE TRILLION DOLLAR MAN SERIES. This action series is written unmistakably for the 21st Century format, like The Bourne Identity and Chris Kyle in American Sniper. Angus Kennedy is published in New York with a major house as a non-fiction author and has his literary fiction with Amazon under the pen names Terry Kennedy & T.D. Kennedy. His goal is always to give the reader solid, feet-on-ground writing that really fulfills the book buyer's quest: a great fiction action adventure Angus Kennedy is launching the Trillion Dollar Man series with Amazon to call attention to heavy-hitter social events that effect all of us. The elements in the book are all fresh and exciting. The 1st Trillionaire on Earth, Billy Clayton A Trillion Dollar Man is a collector's first edition. A black sheep, Connecticut heiress, Jenny Warren is a Shaolin Priestess. A diabolic bad guy, Jet Slade, that makes Darth Vader look like Sister Teresa. When Senator Marlon Hicks demands a report on the butchering of the American Black Bear for saleable animal parts, their extinction in the United States National Parks, the head consultant, Jess Hayes, is massacred with a Special Forces, missile launching shotgun, that tears apart his Tiburon mansion. Slade's problem is that the 1st trillionaire is retired Marine Force Recon and Jenny Warren is a Shaolin Priestess with the tiger and dragon branded inside her forearms. This First Edition of the 1st book in the Billy Clayton Series is a collector's work. The second book in the series, Angels Gate, is written and will soon be ready for you. Here's what John Grisham's agent, the one who discovered him, said about it. This is one of the best books I have seen in a long time. Jay Garron

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ISBN 13	9781845405700
ISBN 10	1845405706
Titel	Being Cultured
Autor	Angus Kennedy
Serie	Societas
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Imprint Academic
Erscheinungsjahr	2014-04-01
Seitenanzahl	225
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
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