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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... feelings are a source of an aesthetic engagement for which eighteenth - century philosophers had a name : sublime ... feeling . Kant's response was completely different . The sublime is a feeling intimately bound up with reflection , and ...
... feelings of bewil- derment and wonder . An object is sublime because it disrupts the faculty of desire and depends ... feeling of the sublime is therefore simultaneously an attitude or judgment with respect to the external world and an ...
... feeling of pain : " The feeling of the sublime is therefore a feeling of pain arising from the want of accordance between the aesthetic estimation of magnitude formed by the imagination and the estimation of the same formed by reason ...
... feeling that does not dissolve one into the other but allows them to exist in full dynamic relationship to each other . I want to do the same , not with aesthetics but with systems of explanatory knowledge , and for a vocabulary I ...
... totem is associated with one group , whose members act as its chief celebrants . The totem excites strong feelings , both joyful and wrathful Copyrighted Material THE PARADOXES OF DESIRE AND THE DIALECTICS OF VALUE 7.
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 |