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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... explains how contradictory opposites , dilemmas , and paradoxes become creatively motivating . Kant thus becomes especially useful , because he proposed an " analytic " of the sublime to decompose the experience into its internal ...
... explain social facts only in terms of other social facts ? Or is society made up of individuals who construct society through their multiple and changing interactions ? Both positions — social constructivism and methodological ...
... explains the emotions as complex discursive tokens arranged in scriptlike social scenarios ( Lutz 1988 ) . But if this explanation were sufficient , what would be the point of calling them emotions ? ( Presumably , the only ...
... explanation of external causes , with reference to the world , and internal causes , with reference to the contents and workings of the mind . They exist in dialectical tension , and the next moment in the development of this dialectic ...
... explanation . I make no attempt to achieve closure but rather to preserve the kind of dialectical openness for which Kant's approach seems to call , I do not claim that the process will be sublime , or even beautiful , only that it will ...
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 |