The Culture of Capitalism

Martin Puchner is the Byron and Anita Wien Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University and a global fellow at Queen Mary University of London. His prize-winning books range from philosophy to technology and the arts and include the Norton Anthology of World Literature, which has brought 4,000 years of literature to students across the globe; The Written World, a Wall Street Journal bestseller that has been translated into twenty languages; and Literature for a Changing Planet, which draws lessons from world literature for addressing climate change. His more recent book, Culture: The Story of Us, from Cave Art to K-Pop is a global history of the arts and humanities. He is a member of the European Academy and has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Cullman Fellowship, the Berlin Prize, the Humboldt Prize and the Massachusetts Book Award.