Copyright

Benjamin Ramm

Published On

2014-10-13

Page Range

pp. 31-39

Print Length

8 pages

3. The Meaning of the Public in an Age of Privatisation

  • Benjamin Ramm (author)
Chapter of: Cultural Heritage Ethics: Between Theory and Practice (pp. 31–39)

The New Right speaks of the private realm as the abode of meaning. This essay explores how this attack on the value of shared culture has impoverished citizens, by robbing them of a vocabulary with which to makes sense of the world. The neoliberal concept of 'private persons, public consumers' has little time for public memory - a context in which museums take on radical new meaning.

Contributors

Benjamin Ramm

(author)

Benjamin Ramm is a writer and broadcaster, and Research Fellow at Gladstone's Library, Wales. He is the former editor of The Liberal magazine, and author of Citizens: A Manifesto.