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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... relationships that are not contingent on calculations of personal gratification ? Some , like Tocqueville , argue that the conflict between these two positions defines American culture , but whether that is true or not , the real ...
... relationship between object and mind that is absent in the quiescent experience of beauty . Sublimity takes place in the world of external objects but refers to realities that are internal : " For the beautiful in nature we must see a ...
... relationship to each other . I want to do the same , not with aesthetics but with systems of explanatory knowledge , and for a vocabulary I suggest we turn not to Kantianism but to the history of our discipline . Specifically , I ...
... relationship between them . At the same time the claim to newness and innovation should give us pause . Weren't the ... relationships of the knowledge , or knowledge is the application of intuitive unconscious principles to per- ception ...
... relationships to the specific cause in question , thus providing an explanation for the relevant event . Because knowledge is not contingent , " but arises entirely from experience , " it is not discovered through reason but in ...
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 |