A Aguiluz Ibargüen, Maya creator author. Beriain, Josetxo author. text bibliography enk 2024 monographic eng 1 online resource. "This book analyzes the culture wars as those struggles for the monopoly of the legitimate representation of the world in the normative elucidation of controversial issues linked to values. Public culture in this context would consist of a set of complex classificatory systems of symbols and meanings that constitute a semantic field in permanent dynamic tension. In this work we analyze a whole series of lines of cultural conflict such as the social and semantic genesis of the different forms of "culture war" from the thesis of "modern polytheism" pointed out by Max Weber at the beginning of the 20th century to the national culture wars and the current global culture wars; the social production of truth and the clash with the epistemological tribalisms; the struggles between the new warrior gods, daimons and demons which emerge in modern societies; the struggles of fusion and fission on the symbolic battlefield of "Europe"; the struggles between "pioneers" and "gatekeepers" to define the limits of human nature; the struggles between utopias and dystopias that colonize the present future. This book will be of great help to anybody looking for key interpretations on the nature and structure of modern conflicts in contemporary societies"-- Culture Wars in Comparative Perspective: Four patterns -- Classificatory struggles and cognitive hegemonization -- Epistemological clashes within the COVID crisis -- Warrior gods, heroes and victims -- "Europe" as a symbolic battlefield -- The dynamic tension between the prefixes of the human: transhuman, posthuman and superhuman -- Social acceleration and time wars out of the future. Maya Aguiluz-Ibargüen and Josetxo Beriain. Culture conflict Culture Civilization, Modern SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies HM1121 9781003461777 1003461778 9781003824039 100382403X 9781003824060 1003824064 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003461777 http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003461777 http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf OCoLC-P 230811 20251030122250.0 9781003461777 eng