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oapen-20.500.12657-898752024-04-17T02:24:07Z Rethinking Culture and Cultural Analysis Möckel, Christian The texts in this collection are revised versions of presentations given at the Coimbra International Conference on the Semantics of Culture emph Why ``Culture''?, held on November 24-25, 2011. Their common theme is the idea that the phenomenon of culture cannot be reduced to a substantialist vision of the diversity of manifestations of society and human beings. However, if one were to accept the concept of culture as a starting point for observing these manifestations, then it should also be adopted as a starting point for critical questioning, that is, for problematizing. The texts in this volume contribute to this philosophical problematization by pointing out - each with its own perspective of analysis - articulations of the phenomenon of culture as a theoretical object and as a thematic object. 2024-04-16T05:34:00Z 2024-04-16T05:34:00Z 2013 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89875 eng application/pdf Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International external_content.pdf Logos Verlag Berlin Logos Verlag Berlin 10.30819/3336 10.30819/3336 1059eef5-b798-421c-b07f-c6a304d3aec8 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Logos Verlag Berlin Knowledge Unlatched open access
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The texts in this collection are revised versions of presentations given at the Coimbra International Conference on the Semantics of Culture emph Why ``Culture''?, held on November 24-25, 2011. Their common theme is the idea that the phenomenon of culture cannot be reduced to a substantialist vision of the diversity of manifestations of society and human beings. However, if one were to accept the concept of culture as a starting point for observing these manifestations, then it should also be adopted as a starting point for critical questioning, that is, for problematizing. The texts in this volume contribute to this philosophical problematization by pointing out - each with its own perspective of analysis - articulations of the phenomenon of culture as a theoretical object and as a thematic object.
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