"CULTURE PHILOSOPHY" (Subject) - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library

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Counterworks: Managing the Diversity of Knowledge

Book by Richard Fardon; Routledge, 1995

Subjects:

Anthropology--Philosophy, Civilization, Western, Culture--Philosophy, Knowledge, Theory Of, Multiculturalism

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

Globalization is often described as the spread of western culture to other parts of the world. How accurate is the depiction of 'cultural flow'? In Counterworks , ten anthropologists examine the ways in which global processes have affected particular localities where they have carried out research ...
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Globalization is often described as the spread of western culture to other parts of the world. How accurate is the depiction of 'cultural flow'? In Counterworks , ten anthropologists examine the ways in which global processes have affected particular localities where they have carried out research. They challenge the validity of anthropological concepts of culture in the light of the pervasive connections which exist between local and global factors everywhere. Counterworks argues that the apparent opposition between strong westernizing, global forces and weak concept of culture, which supposes cultures to be integrated and possessed of essential properties, needs rethinking in a contemporary world where a marked sense of culture has become a wide-spread property of people's social knowledge.
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Aesthetics and Marxism: Chinese Aesthetic Marxists and Their Western Contemporaries

Book by Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson; Duke University Press, 2000

Subjects:

Aesthetics, Culture, Philosophy, German--19th Century, Philosophy, German--20th Century, Philosophy, Marxist--China

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

Although Chinese Marxism -- primarily represented by Maoism -- is generally seen by Western intellectuals as monolithic, Liu Kang argues that its practices and projects are as diverse as those in Western Marxism, particularly in the area of aesthetics. In this comparative study of European and ...
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Although Chinese Marxism -- primarily represented by Maoism -- is generally seen by Western intellectuals as monolithic, Liu Kang argues that its practices and projects are as diverse as those in Western Marxism, particularly in the area of aesthetics. In this comparative study of European and Chinese Marxist traditions, Liu reveals the extent to which Chinese Marxists incorporate ideas about aesthetics and culture in their theories and practices. In doing so, he constructs a wholly new understanding of Chinese Marxism.
Far from being secondary considerations in Chinese Marxism, aesthetics and culture are in fact principal concerns. In this respect, such Marxists are similar to their Western counterparts, although Europeans have had little understanding of the Chinese experience. Liu traces the genealogy of aesthetic discourse in both modern China and the West since the era of classical German thought, showing where conceptual modifications and divergences have occurred in the two traditions. He examines the work of Mao Zedong, Lu Xun, Li Zehou, Qu Qiubai, and others in China, and from the West he discusses Kant, Schiller, Schopenhauer, and Marxist theorists including Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, and Marcuse. While stressing the diversity of Marxist positions within China as well as in the West, Liu explains how ideas of culture and aesthetics have offered a constructive vision for a postrevolutionary society and have affected a wide field of issues involving the problems of modernity.
Forcefully argued and theoretically sophisticated, this book will appeal to students and scholars of contemporary Marxism, cultural studies, aesthetics, and modern Chinese culture, politics, andideology.
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Structural Idealism: A Theory of Social and Historical Explanation

Book by Douglas Mann; Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2002

Subjects:

Culture--Philosophy, History--Philosophy, Idealism, Social Sciences--Philosophy

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

A challenge to our perception of how cultures and ideals are formed, this book shows that while structural ideals allow people to co-operate as they work toward goals - their own or those of their community - these images of perfection, so easily accepted as the unalterable structure of our society, can be changed, and are changed by individuals.
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The World of Quantum Culture

Book by Manuel J. Caro, John W. Murphy; Praeger, 2002

Subjects:

Culture--Philosophy, Quantum Theory

Collections: Entire Library

...John W. Murphy. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-275-97068-X (alk. paper) 1. Culture-Philosophy. 2. Aesthetics. 3. Quantum theory. I. Caro, Manuel J., 1970- II. Murphy, John W. HM621.W65 2002 306.01 dc21...
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Traveling Theory: France and the United States

Book by Ieme Van Der Poel, Sophie Bertho, Ton Hoenselaars; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999

Subjects:

Culture--Philosophy, France--Intellectual Life--20th Century, France--Relations--United States, United States--Civilization--French Influences, United States--Intellectual Life--20th Century, United States--Relations--France

Collections: History, Entire Library

...States-Intellecaual life-20th century. 4. United States-Relations-France. 5. France-Relations-United States. 6. Culture-Philosophy. I. Poel, leme van der, 1949- . 11. Bertho, Sophie. III. Hoenselaars, A. J., 1956-. E169.T73 1999 303.48...