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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... experience arises in many circum- stances but most intensely when we confront our mortality in settings that pit human smallness and frailty against the enormous and destructive powers of nature . In one of the most eloquent passages of ...
... experience when we realize that these oppositions cannot be resolved . The more intense the opposition , the greater its capacity for creating aesthetic appreciation . No sublime pleasure exists in equilibrium or homeostasis , and the ...
... experience the external contrariety and grasp it cognitively . The effort fails , giving rise to pain , but the experience of the sublime encourages us to revel in the pain instead of seeking to vanquish it . The experience becomes ...
... experience , but I believe it can be pushed much further , into an area Kant never considered because he lacked the category — culture . To take one example : Is society a reality sui generis , as Durkheim said , and must we explain ...
... experience . This is not to say that cognitivism and psychoanalysis are wrong but that they constitute oppositions that are ultimately paradoxi- cal . The only way not to be depressed by this is to revel in the paradox by allowing 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 |