Notes Towards the Definition of Culture
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| + | '''''Notes Towards the Definition of Culture''''' is a critical treatise by [[T. S. Eliot]], originally appearing as a series of articles in New England Weekly in [[1943]], and published in book form in 1948. In the ''Notes'', Eliot presents culture as an organic, shared system of beliefs that cannot be planned or artificially induced. Its chief means of transmission, he holds, is the family. The book has been viewed as a critique of postwar Europe and a defense of [[conservatism]], [[elitism]] and [[Christianity]]. | ||
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Notes Towards the Definition of Culture is a critical treatise by T. S. Eliot, originally appearing as a series of articles in New England Weekly in 1943, and published in book form in 1948. In the Notes, Eliot presents culture as an organic, shared system of beliefs that cannot be planned or artificially induced. Its chief means of transmission, he holds, is the family. The book has been viewed as a critique of postwar Europe and a defense of conservatism, elitism and Christianity.
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