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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... results . Those clinicians and social researchers who see borderline and antisocial types as " acting out " personal and family pathology will now come to view them as engaging in enactments of far wider scope — no wonder they are so ...
... resulting state is that of pain or displeasure ( Unlust ) , but it is also a source of creativity . Kant's analytic of the sublime is important because it calls attention to an experience that relies on conflict in order to be felt . It ...
... results , after all , even though it depends on a paradoxical dialectic that will never be solved . The first lesson from Kant is that dialectics constitute human rea- son . Consequently , the failure to achieve closure is inevitable ...
... results from the tight swaddling of Russian infants . " Nothing could be further from the truth , and as usual in anthropology we witness the demise of a fruitful paradigm , not because it has been proved wrong but because other ...
... result in violence . Just as the psychiatrist and I reached the door , the place exploded , and as we sped away about ten police cars pulled up and raided the joint . XXV Through experiences such as this I learned a lot about ...
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 |