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Cultural critic, the Glossary

A cultural critic is a critic of a given culture, usually as a whole.^[1]

50 relations: Academy, Aestheticism, Alan Trachtenberg, Allan Bloom, Casey Nelson Blake, Charles Baudelaire, Columbia University, Counterculture, Critic, Critical theory, Criticism, Criticism of multiculturalism, Cultural pessimism, Cultural studies, Culture, Culture and Anarchy, Culture of the United States, Daniel Quinn, F. O. Matthiessen, Fran Lebowitz, Friedrich Nietzsche, Guy Debord, H. L. Mencken, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Humanities, Interwar period, Irving Babbitt, Jacques Barzun, James Seaton (professor), John Ruskin, Lewis Mumford, Lionel Trilling, Literary criticism, Mark Kingwell, Matthew Arnold, Neil Postman, Randolph Bourne, Richard Wolin, Søren Kierkegaard, Self-consciousness, Semiotics of culture, Slavoj Žižek, Social criticism, Social theory, Susan Sontag, Thomas Carlyle, Van Wyck Brooks, Victorian era, Waldo Frank, Walter Benjamin.
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Academy

An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership).

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Aestheticism

Aestheticism (also known as the aesthetic movement) was an art movement in the late 19th century that valued the appearance of literature, music, fonts and the arts over their functions.

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Alan Trachtenberg

Alan Zelick Trachtenberg (March 22, 1932 – August 18, 2020) was an American historian and the Neil Gray Jr.

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Allan Bloom

Allan David Bloom (September 14, 1930 – October 7, 1992) was an American philosopher, classicist, and academician.

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Casey Nelson Blake

Casey Nelson Blake is a historian and the Mendelson Family Professor of American Studies at Columbia University.

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Charles Baudelaire

Charles Pierre Baudelaire (9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet who also worked as an essayist, art critic and translator.

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Columbia University

Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Counterculture

A counterculture is a culture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, sometimes diametrically opposed to mainstream cultural mores.

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Critic

A critic is a person who communicates an assessment and an opinion of various forms of creative works such as art, literature, music, cinema, theater, fashion, architecture, and food.

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A critical theory is any approach to humanities and social philosophy that focuses on society and culture to attempt to reveal, critique, and challenge power structures. Cultural critic and critical theory are social philosophy.

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Criticism

Criticism is the construction of a judgement about the negative or positive qualities of someone or something.

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Criticism of multiculturalism

Criticism of multiculturalism questions the ideal of the maintenance of distinct ethnic cultures within a country.

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Cultural pessimism

Cultural pessimism arises with the conviction that the culture of a nation, a civilization, or humanity itself is in a process of irreversible decline. Cultural critic and Cultural pessimism are philosophy of culture.

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Cultural studies

Cultural studies is a politically engaged postdisciplinary academic field that explores the dynamics of especially contemporary culture (including the politics of popular culture) and its social and historical foundations.

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Culture

Culture is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.

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Culture and Anarchy

Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867–68 and collected as a book in 1869.

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Culture of the United States

The culture of the United States of America, also referred to as American culture, encompasses various social behaviors, institutions, and norms in the United States, including forms of speech, literature, music, visual arts, performing arts, food, sports, religion, law, technology as well as other customs, beliefs, and forms of knowledge.

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Daniel Quinn

Daniel Clarence Quinn (October 11, 1935 – February 17, 2018) was an American author (primarily, novelist and fabulist), cultural critic, and publisher of educational texts, best known for his novel Ishmael, which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991 and was published the following year.

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F. O. Matthiessen

Francis Otto Matthiessen (February 19, 1902 – April 1, 1950) was an educator, scholar and literary critic influential in the fields of American literature and American studies.

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Fran Lebowitz

Frances Ann Lebowitz (born October 27, 1950) is an American author, public speaker, and actor.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers.

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Guy Debord

Guy-Ernest Debord (28 December 1931 – 30 November 1994) was a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, critic of work, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International.

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H. L. Mencken

Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English.

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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

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Humanities

Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture, including certain fundamental questions asked by humans.

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Interwar period

In the history of the 20th century, the interwar period (or interbellum) lasted from 11November 1918 to 1September 1939 (20years, 9months, 21days) – from the end of World War I (WWI) to the beginning of World War II (WWII).

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Irving Babbitt

Irving Babbitt (August 2, 1865 – July 15, 1933) was an American academic and literary critic, noted for his founding role in a movement that became known as the New Humanism, a significant influence on literary discussion and conservative thought in the period between 1910 and 1930.

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Jacques Barzun

Jacques Martin Barzun (November 30, 1907 – October 25, 2012) was a French-born American historian known for his studies of the history of ideas and cultural history.

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James Seaton (professor)

James Everett Seaton (1944 – March 30, 2017) was an American writer, professor and literary critic.

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John Ruskin

John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher, art historian, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era.

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Lewis Mumford

Lewis Mumford (19 October 1895 – 26 January 1990) was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic.

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Lionel Trilling

Lionel Mordecai Trilling (July 4, 1905 – November 5, 1975) was an American literary critic, short story writer, essayist, and teacher.

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Literary criticism

A genre of arts criticism, literary criticism or literary studies is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature.

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Mark Kingwell

Mark Gerald Kingwell (born March 1, 1963) is a Canadian professor of philosophy and former associate chair at the University of Toronto's Department of Philosophy.

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Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic.

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Neil Postman

Neil Postman (March 8, 1931 – October 5, 2003) was an American author, educator, media theorist and cultural critic, who eschewed digital technology, including personal computers, mobile devices, and cruise control in cars, and was critical of uses of technology, such as personal computers in school.

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Randolph Bourne

Randolph Silliman Bourne (May 30, 1886 – December 22, 1918) was a progressive writer and intellectual born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and a graduate of Columbia University.

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Richard Wolin

Richard Wolin (born 1952) is an American intellectual historian who writes on 20th Century European philosophy, particularly German philosopher Martin Heidegger and the group of thinkers known collectively as the Frankfurt School.

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Søren Kierkegaard

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher.

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Self-consciousness

Self-consciousness is a heightened sense of awareness of oneself.

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Semiotics of culture

Semiotics of culture is a research field within semiotics that attempts to define culture from semiotic perspective and as a type of human symbolic activity, creation of signs and a way of giving meaning to everything around.

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Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek (born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual.

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Social criticism is a form of academic or journalistic criticism focusing on social issues in contemporary society, in respect to perceived injustices and power relations in general. Cultural critic and social criticism are criticisms.

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Social theories are analytical frameworks, or paradigms, that are used to study and interpret social phenomena.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_critic

Also known as Cultural Criticism, Cultural commentary, Cultural commentator, Culture critic, Culture criticism, Culture writer.

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