Abstract
ABSTRACT This paper proposes a redefinition of the much contested field of Cultural Studies as the study of values. With Wittgenstein and Geertz in hand, it further proposes the definition of value as the embodiment and symbolisation of ‘distinctions of worth’ in everyday rule governed behaviour. With help from Wiggins’ well known paper ‘Truth, Invention, and the Meaning of Life’ the paper further acknowledges that value may be seen both as intrinsic to action and as attributed to it. The paper concludes by acknowledging that values will identify the key site of cultural and political struggle and that nothing will be gained by an intelligentsia which fails to defend and fight for its own professed values on behalf of an enlightened public.
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