Culture and the State

David Lloyd

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From the end of the eighteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century, a remarkable convergence took place in Europe between theories of the modern state and theories of culture. Culture and the State relates this convergence to the social function of state and cultural institutions in modern society, analyzing how culture assumes the task of forming citizens for the modern state.

Book Details

Publisher: Routledge
Publish Date: Nov 25th, 1997
Pages: 244
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.90in - 5.98in - 0.56in - 0.70lb
EAN: 9780415911030
Categories: • Sociology - General• General• Europe - Great Britain - General

About the Author

Paul Thomas is Professor of Political Science, specializing in political theory, University of California, Bekeley. He is the Author of Alien Politics: Marxist State Theory Retrieved (Routledge, 1994.) DavidLloyd is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

Praise for this book

"...Lloyd and Thomas have achieved an original and valuable account of the ideological power of aesthetic discourse. This splendidly intelligent book will make necessary reading not just for Victorianists or Marxist theorists, but for anyone with any serious interest in cultural critique." -- Victorian Studies
"Culture and the State is brilliant in its conception and absolutely needed in order to both hisoricize and problematize the relationship between culture and the state in light of the current debates... The authors do not merely add another theoretical wrinkle to the issue of the relationship among schook, culture, and the state, but offer a fresh, innovative, original, and much needed take on the subject." -- Henry A. Giroux, Editor of Education and Cultural Studies