Lesson 6

Question 1

Culture is a simple term (True or False)

Answer 1

False

(Culture is a complex term)

Question 2

“a body of artistic and intellectual work; a process of spiritual development”

Answer 2

Culture

Question 3

For Eagleton, culture is

Answer 3

a complete (whole) way of life.

Question 4

Culture and Civilization, as Eagleton also cites Williams

Answer 4

Stir a discourse of power relation

Question 5

Culture, as Eagleton also mentions T.S. Eliot, includes

Answer 5

“all the characteristic activities and interests of a people.”

Question 6

What is culture and civilization for Eagleton?

Answer 6

might mean the same thing, yet viewed as opposite in the age of modernity.

Question 7

How we acknowledged artifacts, symbolic practices, diversity, and identity as part of our un/consciousness:

Answer 7

“A good deal of culture involves less of what you do than how you do it.”

Question 8

In Eagleton’s culture as a whole way of life, understands more in the situation of tribal and premodern societies: This creates a line between what?

Answer 8

practical/symbolic practices and economic growth and production

Question 9

If lines were to be crossed over:

Answer 9

“Social facts begin to come adrift from cultural values, a process that involves new kinds of freedom as well as new forms of hardships”

Question 10

“culture is a question of value and civilization a matter of fact.”
(True or false)

Answer 10

True

(Is civilization a precondition of culture? “But the truth is that culture is the creature of the very civilization to which it seeks to lend some spiritual foundation.”)

Question 11

Nature reflects the idea of culture. (senses, species, and phenomenon)
(True or false)

Answer 11

True

Question 12

How did Slavoj Žižek define Nature?

Answer 12

“Nature is crazy” says Slavoj Žižek, “Nature is chaotic and prone to wild, unpredictable and meaningless disasters, and we are exposed to its merciless whims. There is no such thing as Mother Earth… I don’t think there is any natural order. Natural order is a catastrophe”

Question 13

If culture is a natural phenomenon then civilization is…

Answer 13

“more cosmopolitan phenomenon” than it.

Question 14

refers to a world which is humanly manufactured. It involves rolling back nature to the point where we confront almost nothing in our surroundings that does not reflect ourselves.” (leads to desire of needs and power.)

Answer 14

Civilization

Question 15

Civilization on creating ideas of normativities, (continue)

Answer 15

what to do, what to define, what is good and what is bad, yet not descriptive.