Culture, science, society : the constitution of cultural modernity / by Gyorgy Markus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Márkus, György, 1934-2016.

Series:

Social and critical theory ; v. 10.

Social and critical theory, 1572-459X ; v. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture--Philosophy.

Culture.

Modernism (Aesthetics).

Civilization, Modern.

Philosophy, Modern.

Science--Philosophy.

Science.

Science--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (680 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden [Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The closely interrelated essays in this volume address the question of the internal dynamism of the high culture of modernity in its paradoxical constitution as the complementary unity of strict opposites: the sciences (philosophy included) and the arts. Special attention is paid to the internal strains of these two great fields in our contemporaneity. It discusses on the one hand the role of experts and, on the other, that of the market in both of these areas . It also deals with the hermeneutical relationship between author - work - recipient and its historical transformations. Although essays deal with the complex philosophical issues, these are discussed in a clear way, approcheable for a person with a broad philosophical interest. They are, however, addressed primarily to philosophers, social scientists, culturologists and aestheticians.

Contents:

A society of culture : the constitution of modernity

Beyond the dichotomy : praxis and poiesis

The paradoxical unity of culture : the arts and the sciences

Interpretation of, and interpretation in, philosophy

The ends of metaphysics

Changing images of science

Why is there no hermeneutics of natural sciences? : some preliminary theses

After the system : philosophy in the epoch of sciences

On our beliefs : about the cognitive structure of contemporary culture

Culture : the making and the make-up of a concept : an essay in historical semantics

Condorcet : communication/science/democracy

Money and the book : Kant and the crisis of the German Enlightenment

The Hegelian concept of culture

Hegel and the end of art

Marxism and theories of culture

On ideology-critique

critically

A philosophy lost : German philosophies of culture at the end of the nineteenth century

Life and the soul : the young Lukacs and the problem of culture

Walter Benjamin, or, The commodity as phantasmagoria

Adorno and mass culture : autonomous art against the culture industry

Antinomies of "culture."

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-12096-8

9786613120960

90-04-20349-4

OCLC:

727951528

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004202405.i-666 DOI