SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Untimely Meditations, F. R. Leavis, High Culture

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Socy 122 - introduction to sociology - lecture 10: culture and politics of culture. This modernity was our sickness: lazy, peace, cowardly compromise, the whole virtuous uncleanliness of the modern yes and no . In opposition to the mendaciousness millennia culture is liberation. Goethe the totality disciplined himself into wholeness, he created himself. Humanity as strong, highly educated, skilful, self-controlled, reverent toward himself; tolerant, not from weakness but from strength; for whom nothing is forbidden except weakness. The best that has been said and thought in the world. A stream of fresh, free thought upon our stock notions and habits. F. r leavis and denys thompson, culture and environment (1933) Training taste and sensibility in the face of mass culture (films, newspapers, advertising etc. ) Lost the organic community in which living culture is embodied a substitute. Portrait of the working class 3 generations. Not the passive internalization of banal mass culture.

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