About the book
The word culture strikes John Cowper Powys as being as slippery as aristocracy or liberty, and his aim is to give it a concrete, recognizable character without squeezing it into strict logic. The book falls into two parts. The first, Analysis of Culture, gives separate chapters to philosophy, literature, poetry, painting and religion. The second, Application of Culture, turns to love, happiness, nature, destiny and human relations, along with the art of reading and the obstacles that stand in culture's way. Powys pictured the whole as a sort of one-man Platonic symposium, an easy and humane discussion that might also point toward the narrow path of the wise.
O'Reilly Media founder Tim O'Reilly counted it among the books that shaped how he thinks, crediting Powys with the idea that culture means absorbing music, art, literature and philosophy into who a person is, not merely into a library or a CV.
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Tim O'Reilly (Founder/O'Reilly Media)
In The Meaning of Culture, John Cowper Powys makes the point that the difference between education and culture is that culture is the incorporation of music, art, literature, and philosophy not just into your library or your CV but into who you are. He talks too about the interplay of culture and life, the way that what we read can enrich what we experience, and what we experience can enrich what we read.
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