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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... reasons . First , it requires a new way of talking about cultural problematics— a vocabulary of paradox , as it were . But this is not easy , given the heavy penetration of social science by various forms of utilitarianism , both of the ...
... Reason ( 1787 ) , which is that reason , pushed to its logical conclusion , must end in nihilism . According to Friedrich Jacobi , who invented the term , nihilism is the inevitable if nevertheless unintended outcome of all ...
... reason and produces feelings of bewil- derment and wonder . An object is sublime because it disrupts the faculty of desire and depends on a relationship between object and mind that is absent in the quiescent experience of beauty ...
... reason " ( Kant [ 1790 ] 1951 , 96 ) . In other words , contradiction produces a conflict in the operation of our faculties : the mind generates an idea of reason for which the imagination is inadequate . The resulting state is that of ...
... reason but of nature too . If Kantian dialectical theory ( broadly conceived ) invites us to embrace conflict and eschew final resolutions , it also suggests a place where this can be applied . No opposition is more troublesome than ...
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 |