A cultural critic is a critic of a given culture, usually as a whole and typically on a radical basis. There is significant overlap with social and cultural theory.
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Famous quotes containing the words cultural and/or critic:
“A society that has made “nostalgia” a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.”
—Christopher Lasch (b. 1932)
“A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)