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A cultural critic therefore stands, in relation to Intellectual or artistic life, or certain social arrangements or Education al practices, roughly where a Prophet would in respect of Religious life. Cultural critics came to the fore in the Nineteenth Century . Matthew Arnold is a leading example of a cultural critic of the Victorian Age ; in him there is also a concern for religion. John Ruskin was another — because of an equation made between ugliness of material surroundings and an impoverished life, Aesthete s and others might be considered implicitly to be engaging in cultural criticism, but the actual articulation is what makes a critic. In France, Charles Baudelaire was a cultural critic. In the Twentieth Century Irving Babbitt on the right, and Walter Benjamin on the left, might be considered major cultural critics. The field of play has changed considerably, in that the Humanities have broadened to include Cultural Studies of all kinds. A cultural critic might still be distinguished by being firmly judgemental, rather than concentrating on the role of objective scholar. SEE ALSO Culture Theory |