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Historico-genetic Theory of Culture : On the Processual Logic of Cultural Change.
The book focuses on the modern understanding of human life-forms as constructs that followed an evolutionary history. The author thus finds science confronted with two questions: firstly, how the transgression of the virtual threshold between natural and cultural history was possible, secondly, how...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Bielefeld :
Transcript,
2014.
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| Series: | Sozialtheorie.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover Historico-genetic Theory of Culture ; Content; I. ON THE TRACKS OF MODERNITY ; 1. The Search for the Reestablished Unity of the World ; 1. The Whole Story: History in its Entirety ; 2. The Link to Natural History ; 3. The Cognitive Presuppositions of Modernity ; 4. The Problem of Historical Understanding.
- 2. The Radical Change in Modernity's Understanding of the World 1. The Change in the Structure of the Understanding of Nature ; 2. The Machine Model as Paradigm ; 3. Machina Mundi: The Process of Secularization ; 4. The Removal of Mind from Nature ; 5. Mind as Successor Organization.
- 3. The Copernican Turn: The Consciousness of Convergence, Constructivism, and Historicity 1. The Dimension of Epistemological Critique ; 2. Sociocultural Life-Forms as Construct ; 3. The Consciousness of Historicity.
- 4. The Anthropological Constitution as a Condition of Enculturation: The Structures of Mind in Culture 1. The Difference Between Media ; 2. Anthropology as a Basic Science ; 3. From Philosophical to Biological Anthropology ; 4. The Reductionism of Sociobiology ; 5. Constructive Autonomy.
- 6. The Key to Enculturation: Ontogenesis 7. Mind and Culture in Historico-Genetic Theory ; 5. The Three Worlds ; 1. World ; 2. Nature ; 3. Society ; 4. Inner World and Inner Nature ; 6. Misunderstood Modernity: Résumé I ; 1. Intermediate Reflections ; 2. Constructive Autonomy.