Theory of culture

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1978
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New York, United States of America: NOK Publishers International Ltd
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Their Relationship; Language and Thought: Their Interdependence; Their Limits: The Inexpressible and the Inconceivable; Their Opposition: Being and Not-Being; Their Mutual Reference: Reality, Identity; Their Interplay; The Stakes in the Game: The Sign; Form; Content; Communication: Its Hermetic Nature; Consequence: Solitude; Transcending Their Levels; How Solitude is Transcended by Science; How Solitude is Transcended by Literature; Historical Consequences of this Dual Transcendence; Scientific Research and Language; Literary Creation and Language; Subjectivity and Language; Transcendence and Language; The Self in the Novel; The Lyrical Self and Cosmic Consciousness; Language as a Source of Life and Thought; Language, Time and Freedom; Diachronic Cultural Movements; Language; Time; Freedom; Science and Imagination; Discovery; Meaning; Structures and Outlines of Culture; Conditions for a Methodical Theory of Culture; The Starting Point; Defining the Method; New Dimensions and Their Adequate Figuration; The Problem of Totality; The Objective Validity of the Theory; Metalanguages; Background; Thresholds and Limits; Cultural Communication and Transmission; Sex and Freedom; Artistic and Literary Expression; Correspondence and Compensation; Internal Movements in Literature; Internal Movements in Lyrical Poetry; Internal Movements in the Novel; The Means of Expression in Drama, Films, Cartoons etc; Art and Literature in Perspective; Critical Distance; Comparative Perspective; The Fluctuations of Criticism; Scientific Culture; The Meaning of Reason; Scientific Growth; Scientific Evolution; Derived Forms of Culture; The Theory of Derivation; Religion and Mysticism; Ontology; History; Linguistics; Psychology; Medicine; Pedagogy; Jurisprudence; Social Science;s Recapitulation; Preliminary Remarks; Problems of Method; A Matter of Perspective: Self-Experience; A Matter of Perspective: The Transfer of Identity and External Reality; Disruptions of Cultural Unity; Extralinguistic Aspects of Culture; The Cumulative Conception and the Hierarchy of Values; Personal Judgement and Criteria of Value; Limits to Culture; The Substitution of Experience for Language; Plan of Part Four; Definition of Experience; Substitution; Internal Opening; Limitation of the Experience Content; The Foundation of Experience; Self-Experience and Experience of Otherness; The Involvement of Experience; Cultural Freedom and Responsibility; Cultural Constants; Placing the Constants in a Cultural Situation; Identities as the Content of Experience; Preliminary Remarks; The Dogma of Binary Relations; Theory of Culture, Anthropology and Sociology; Cultural Identification; The Cultural Experience of Reality; The Notion of Cultural Reality; Notions of Reality, Their Testing and Their Reference Value; The External Context of Self-Experience; Reality as the External Context; Convergence of the Two Types of Experience.

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THEORY OF CULTURE is a systematic analysis of the linguistic aspects of culture, and an evaluation of the fundamental aspects and modes of cultural experience. Starting with the hypothesis that culture, like language. is all-embracing (even though specific sciences deal mainly with its social functions). The book goes on to analyze the linguistic structures interwoven with culture as a whole, and attempts to encompass the general relationships between the operations of cultural experience and its contexts.
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