{"product_id":"beyond-the-juxtaposition-of-nature-and-culture-9781433142925","title":"Beyond the Juxtaposition of Nature and Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays contained in \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Juxtaposition of Nature and Culture \u003c\/i\u003erepresent an attempt by scholars from Canada, Germany, and Mexico to come to grips with the innovative work of the American philosopher and anthropologist Lawrence Krader who has proposed nothing less than a new theory of nature, according to which there are at least three different ordersthe material-biotic, the quantum, and the humanwhich differ from one another according to their different configurations of space-time, and which cannot be reduced the one to the others. Each author takes up Krader's theory in relation to its impact on their own discipline: sociology, anthropology, the study of myth, the theory of labor and value, economics, linguistics, and aesthetics. The question of how nature and culture can be integrated within a theoretical framework which links them in difference and nexus and allows each their non-reductive space leads each of the contributors to move in their thinking beyond the \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCyril Levitt: Preface: Lawrence Krader—a Personal Retrospective in Memoriam – Sabine Sander\/Cyril Levitt: Introduction: The \"Unknown\" Krader: New Encounters – Cyril Levitt: Lawrence Krader: Noetics: The Science of Thinking and Knowing – Human Being in Relation to Several Orders of Nature – Dorothy Pawluch\/Kathleen Steeves: Constructionist Reflections on \u003ci\u003eNoetics\u003c\/i\u003e – Sabine Sander: Variations of the Embodied Self: George H. Mead, Ernst Cassirer, and Lawrence Krader on the Human Being between Nature and Culture – Krader and Anthropology – Antje Linkenbach: Projecting a New Anthropology? Some Reflections on Lawrence Krader’s Contribution to the Discipline of Anthropology and His Significance Today – Brígida von Mentz: Krader’s Encompassing \"\u003ci\u003eWeltanschauung\u003c\/i\u003e\": His Concepts of Art, Techne, and Science, and the Ethno-history of Mesoamerica – Mayán Cervantes: Myth in Krader’s \u003ci\u003eMito e Ideologia\u003c\/i\u003e Compared with Myth in \u003ci\u003eNoetics\u003c\/i\u003e – Economics, Labor, and Value – Carsten Herrmann-Pillath: Lawrence Krader’s Noetics and Its Implications for Resolving the Methodological Conundrum of the \"Naturalistic Turn\" in Contemporary Economics – Michelle Goldenberg: Science, Productive and Unproductive Labor, Mediate and Immediate Production – Lawrence Krader: Appendix: Theory of Nature. Theory of Human Being. Workplan – Contributors – Index.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039615811927,"sku":"9781433142925","price":76.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beyond-the-juxtaposition-of-nature-and-culture-9781433142925","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}