Historico-genetic Theory of Culture: On the Processual Logic of Cultural Change

Günter Dux

Published by transcript Verlag 2011

Historico-genetic Theory of Culture

On the Processual Logic of Cultural Change

Günter Dux

In the series Sozialtheorie

https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839415139

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About this book

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 the socio-cultural constructs were able to develop in the course of history the way they did. The discussion concentrates on the problem of determining a processual logic in the development of societal structures as well as in the development of cognition. The focus of attention is the historico-genetic reconstruction of cognition.

The book was originally published in German as »Historisch-genetische Theorie der Kultur« (Weilerswist 2000: Velbrück).

Author / Editor information

Günter Dux teaches Sociology and Social Philosophy at the University of Freiburg (Germany).

Reviews

Reviewed in:

EthnoScripts, 1 (2012), Julia Dombrowski

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II. The Schism of the two Logics: Maintaining the Absolutist Logic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
III. The Revolution in Cognitive Theory: Ontogenesis and History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
IV. Regaining History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 414
Keywords: Philosophy; Theory of Cognition; Culture; Society; Cultural Theory; Sociological Theory; Sociology of Culture; Cultural History; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: March 27, 2014
ISBN: 9783839415139