Title: Cultural revolutions : reason versus culture in philosophy, politics, and jihad /
Authors: Cahoone, Lawrence E., 1954-
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Social history; Social history; Cognition and culture.; Culture conflict.; Cultural relativism.; Multiculturalism.; Cognition and culture.; Cultural relativism.; Culture conflict.; Multiculturalism.; Social history; Social history; Social history.
Abstract: "In this probing examination of the meaning and function of culture in contemporary society, Lawrence Cahoone argues that reason itself is cultural, but no less reasonable for it. While recent political and philosophical movements have recognized that cognition, the self, and politics are embedded in culture, most fail to appreciate the deep changes in rationalism and liberal theory this implies, others leap directly into relativism, and nearly all fail to define culture. Cultural Revolutions systematically defines culture, gauges the consequences of the ineradicably cultural nature of cognition and action, yet argues that none of this implies relativism. Book jacket."--Jacket.
Contents: Introduction : the return of the repressed -- Liberalism and la revanche de la culture -- Kingdoms of ends -- Who is culture? -- Modernity : culture of reason or reason against culture? -- Postmodernity : too much culture or not enough? -- Playing reality -- Why there is no problem of cultural relativism -- What is the opposite of jihad? -- Conclusion : culture's reasons.