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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... kind of ambivalence that can be felt . Ambivalence motivates compromise and creative acts of redefinition , and these in turn strongly in- fluence the development of the diverse knowledge systems . These systems depend on the continued ...
... kind , which gives us courage to be able to measure ourselves against the seeming omnipotence of nature . ( [ 1790 ] 1951 , 261 } The sublime exists in the contemplation of exaggerated oppositions — the enormous and the minuscule , the ...
... kind of dialectic — the kind of dialectic that provides resolution by allocating opposed values to emotion categories and then applying them as descriptions of social roles . The second case study shifts the focus to values and 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 be dialecticaily motivating . Acknowledgments During the fieldwork on which ...
... kind . The psychiatrist , on the other hand , had different reasons for being there . He liked the " rush , " as he put it , of being in danger . We spent the next couple of hours together , sitting at the bar and interviewing the obese ...
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 |