Defining "Culture" | Episode CVII

About this episode

The episode explores the concept of culture through the lens of T.S. Eliot's work.

Send us Fan Mail Download Ekho: ancientlanguage.com/ekho/ Subscribe to New Humanists+ for bonus episodes: buzzsprout.com/1791279/subscribe Pop culture. Cancel culture. Judeo-Christian culture. Everyone likes to talk about "culture," but what actually is it? One of the greatest writers of the 20th century, the poet and essayist T.S. Eliot, wrote a short book, Notes Toward the Definition of Culture, attempting to answer exactly that question. Written in the latter days of World War Two, as ...

Topics covered

• culture
• definition
• T.S. Eliot
• pop culture
• society
• Judeo-Christian culture

Keywords

• culture
• T.S. Eliot
• definition
• pop culture
• society
• Judeo-Christian culture

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Books & works: Notes Toward the Definition of Culture

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