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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... mental movement combined with the estimate of the object " ( Kant [ 1790 ] 1951 , 103 ) . Sublimity invokes the intuitive capacities of human reason and produces feelings of bewil- derment and wonder . An object is sublime because it ...
... Mental Health ; the American Council of Learned Societies ; and the National Endowment for the Humanities . To Lorna Rhodes and Howard Stein I owe a special debt of gratitude , for they not only read whole drafts of this book but they ...
... mental mechanism for registering significant correlations . " What that medium is , I must confess , passes my compre- hension " ( [ 1748 ] 1966 , 35 ) . Probably , he preferred to avoid the issue , because if it could be shown that not ...
... mental defects , which he believed predestined such individuals to special roles as religious func- tionaries ( [ 1915 ] 1965 , 258 ) . Delirium and intoxication also are similar ; that is why people often try to induce these states ...
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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 |