The Idea of Culture
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In Terry Eagleton's (1) The Idea of Culture, the author provides a discussion of the idea of "culture," an idea he lists among "one of the two or three most complex words in the English language." In a similar vein of thought, in Culture as Praxis Zygmunt Bauman (1) asserts that "The unyielding ambiguity of the concept of culture is notorious." Eagleton shows how culture is a concept that derives from nature. However, culture alters nature. As Eagleton (3), "Nature produces culture which changes nature." He also makes it clear that concepts of culture are most always connected to discussions of power, authority and government. In Eagleton's view there is an intimate connection between culture
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