Cultural Revolutions
Subtitle: Reason Versus Culture In Philosophy, Politics, And Jihad
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: April 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780271025247
Subjects: Cultural studies; Archaeology / Anthropology; Religion; Anthropology - Cultural; General; Sociology - Social Theory; Philosophy; Religion, Politics & State; 20th century; 21st century; Cognition and culture; Culture conflict; Social history
Description: "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.