Culture, Multiculture and Postculture

This text examines a fundamental modern contradiction: the relation between greater cultural diversity and global capitalism.

Arguing for a view of culture which is grounded in history, the author looks at the way in which cultural distintions shape our relation to reality and imagination.

He illustrates his arguments with a range of sources from fiction and real life, and represents the many-sided and ubiquitous nature of culture in social life.

The text comments on the trend towards global culture, but it avoids the conceits of postmodernism by insisting that differences have not "withered away".

Instead, the author shows how the forces of globalization have multiplied cultural differences and diversities.