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The Crisis of Culture Olivier Roy

The Crisis of Culture von Olivier Roy

The Crisis of Culture Olivier Roy


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Zusammenfassung

A brilliant analysis of identity politics by world-renowned thinker Olivier Roy.

The Crisis of Culture Zusammenfassung

The Crisis of Culture: Identity Politics and the Empire of Norms Olivier Roy

Are we confronting a new cultureglobal, online, individualistic? Or is our existing concept of culture in crisis, as explicit, normative systems replace implicit, social values?

Olivier Roys new book explains todays fractures via the extension of individual political and sexual freedoms from the 1960s. For Roy, twentieth-century youth culture disconnected traditional political protest from class, region or ethnicity, fashioning an identity premised on repudiation rather than inheritance of shared history or values. Having spread across generations under neoliberalism and the internet, youth culture is now individualised, ersatz.

Without a shared culture, everything becomes an explicit code of how to speak and act, often online. Identities are now defined by socially fragmenting personal traits, creating affinity-based sub-cultures seeking safe spaces: universities for the left, gated communities and hard borders for the right.

Increased left- and right-wing references to identity fail to confront this deeper crisis of culture and community. Our only option, Roy argues, is to restore social bonds at the grassroots or citizenship level.

The Crisis of Culture Bewertungen

'An intellectual nonconformist, Roy has achieved something remarkable: he has written a book on identity politics that neither condemns nor embraces it, but is instead a nuanced cultural dissection of its origins and its contradictions.. . Proof that truly singular books do not scream their originality. [An] illuminating and highly original interpretation of today's world... . It brings order to a world not at ease with itself.' -- Financial Times
This is by far the best analysis I have read of the culture wars and identity politics that besets our time. -- Faisal Devji, Professor of Indian History, University of Oxford
'Our world is flattened, says Olivier Roy. Linguistic diversity is replaced by Basic English; expression by emoticons; culture (in both the high and the anthropological senses) by identity-markers. Roy draws on his long experience in both academia and public life, but with a captivatingly youthful verve and provocativeness.' -- Jonathan Benthall, Director, Royal Anthropological Institute (1974-2000), Founding Editor, 'Anthropology Today'
'Olivier Roy has long been one of the worlds most creative thinkers on religion. Its a delight to see his mind at work on the broader issue of the culture wars.' -- Thomas Hegghammer (PhD), Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford

Über Olivier Roy

Olivier Roy is Professor at the European University Institute in Florence. Six of his highly acclaimed books on religion and politics are published by Hurst, includingGlobalised Islam; Jihad and Death; Holy Ignorance;andIs Europe Christian?

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GOR013730602
9781911723059
1911723057
The Crisis of Culture: Identity Politics and the Empire of Norms Olivier Roy
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
2024-03-21
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