Notes Toward the Definition of Culture
Notes Toward the Definition of Culture
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T.S. Eliot. Stated first American edition. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. Very Good+/Very Good+ An unclipped jacket with original price $2.50 on inside flap. No writing or markings in the book, 128pp. Has a small bookstore sticker on the flyleaf. Jacket has some chipping on top/bottom edges.
Eliot's essay on the organic development of culture, and the state of Europe's culture after the Second World War. He discusses the culture in communist Russia, and compares it with a future in which culture as he sees it, ceases to exist. Eliot also discusses religion as it relates to culture.
He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. The book was published first in the U.K. In 1948.