Ideas Matter, Culture Wars: then and now, ep 12, ‘The Cultural Turn’

Professor Frank Furedi discusses the cultural turn that emerged
in the 1970s and its subsequent development in the decades that
followed. The talk explores the reaction to the 60s
counterculture, the rise of post-material values and the
contemporary politicisation of culture.


LECTURER Professor Frank Furedi, sociologist and social
commentator; author, How Fear Works: culture of fear in the 21st
century and Populism and the European Culture Wars.


TALKING POINTS IN THIS PODCAST • The role of environmental issues
in the intellectual elite’s adoption of post-material values in
the 1970s • The erosion of meaning and dissolving of long
established physical and cultural boundaries of Western
civilisation • The demise of the traditional authority of the
liberal ideal of autonomy • The depoliticization of public life
and the new marriage of cultural and technocratic politics.


FURTHER READING • The Hidden History of Identity Politics by
Frank Furedi, 1 December
2017 www.frankfuredi.com/article/the_hid…entity_politics •
Icarus Fallen: The Search for Meaning in an Uncertain World by
Chantal Delsol, ISI Books, 2010


THE ACADEMY 2019 • In the context of today’s instrumental
approaches to knowledge, The Academy summer school is a modest
attempt to demonstrate the value of scholarship, and of the worth
of the university as a place of free enquiry dedicated to the
pursuit of truth.


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