Cultural Transactions : Nature, Self, Society / Paul Hernadi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hernadi, Paul, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gender Studies.

Psychology & Psychiatry.

Local Subjects:

Gender Studies.

Psychology & Psychiatry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (144 p.) : 3 drawings

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In this provocative book, Paul Hernadi goes beyond current intersubjectivist approaches to cultural phenomena, maintaining instead that the natural, the personal, and the social are complementary dimensions of all human making, doing, and meaning. His chief concern is with verbal communication, but he also considers music and architecture, cooking and business, television and film, basketball and chess.For centuries, Hernadi notes, people viewed either matter or mind-nature or spirit-as the ultimate principle of being and becoming. In contrast, much contemporary theory assumes that reality is socially constructed. While recognizing the powers of culture, Hernadi pays close attention to the material conditions and personal responsibilities of human agency as well. Tracing both continuities and disruptions in key intellectual traditions, he relates his conceptions of culture, existence, and experience to three classic triads: the rhetorical aims of moving, delighting, and teaching; the psychological capacities of willing, feeling, and knowing; and the evaluative criteria of justice, beauty, and truth.Discussing such controversies as the conflict between Lacanian and Derridean viewpoints, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in literary theory, feminist theory, and the intersections of psychoanalysis and philosophy in literary criticism.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Prologue: Enticements and Forewarnings

Chapter One. How to Do, Make, and Mean Things with Words

Chapter Two. The Performance, Recording, and Mental Rehearsal of Cultural Transactions

Chapter Three. Who We Are: The Rhetoric, Grammar, and Logic of Communal Identities

Chapter Four. Society, Nature, Selves: Freedom and Diversity

Chapter Five. Four More Triads and Beyond

Epilogue: Loose Ends and Afterthoughts

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781501735011

1501735012

OCLC:

1129161942