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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... herrings in our path , we do it to ourselves to take us off course — to that culturally opposite pole of our ambivalence . Over the decades and centuries humankind has accrued many names Copyrighted Material xii FOREWORD.
A Problem That Cannot Be Solved Charles W. Nuckolls. Over the decades and centuries humankind has accrued many names : Homo sapiens , the bipedal primate , the tool maker , the erect - walking pri- mate , the symbolic animal , man - the ...
... century philosophers had a name : sublime . For Immanuel Kant the sublime is a response to one problem raised in the Critique of Pure Reason ( 1787 ) , which is that reason , pushed to its logical conclusion , must end in nihilism ...
... century sensibilities almost nothing could be more remote than the idea of sublimity . As aesthetic categories , the absurd , the con- voluted , and the narcissistically self - aware dominate today . It is not that people no longer ...
... century after Hume and Kant , Durkheim commented : Up to the present there have been only two doctrines in the field . For some , the categories cannot be derived from experience : they are logically prior to it and condirion it . They ...
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 |