Culture: A Problem That Cannot Be SolvedFrench historian Alexis de Tocqueville observed that the conflict between the ideals of individualism and community defines American culture. In this groundbreaking new work, anthropologist Charles Nuckolls discovers that every culture consists of such paradoxes, thus making culture a problem that cannot be solved. He does, however, find much creative tension in these unresolvable opposites. |
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... become the signature of many critical medical anthropologists ( along with the buzzwords they use — hegemony , power , and so forth } . In this book Nuckolls is our Tocqueville . It is , in fact , a major contribution ( odd as the ...
... become whatever chaos we most fear ( id , superego , and so on ) . We cannot solve what we must keep trying to solve and then fail . We can never face ourselves if we always face ( and point to ) " them " instead . And it is to that ...
... becomes so because of psychological properties that need not be specified . This is the central weakness of Levi - Straussian structuralism : it never came to grips with the problem of motivation . Independence and dependence , for ...
... become creatively motivating . Kant thus becomes especially useful , because he proposed an " analytic " of the sublime to decompose the experience into its internal constituents . The analytic begins by distinguishing the sublime from ...
... becomes aesthetically productive at this moment and leads to creative appreciation as we seek to grasp the conflicts in their totality . The sublime experience points toward a goal it cannot reach , and must not , in order for the ...
Contents
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Value Dialectics and the Construction of a Regional Identity Max Weber in Oklahoma | 74 |
The Allocation of Value to Gender and the Cultural History of Psychiatric Diagnosis | 108 |
Cultural Ambivalence and the Knowledge Structures of Modern American Psychiatry | 161 |
The Narrative Reproduction of Values in Psychiatric Training and Practice | 202 |
Dialectical Values and Cultural Paradox | 270 |
Bibliography | 279 |
Index | 293 |