Description
Book Synopsis Individuals often view culture as activities beyond their interests, associating the concept with exclusivity or high art. To be cultured is often synonymous with engaging in physical expressions of art, like opera, a classical music concert, a museum exhibit or a theater performance. While culture does indeed extend to all these things, it is the internal processes of memory, language, imagination and thought that frequently have more significance than any real-world activity. Culture is day-to-day life, ideas, identity and perception.
This book investigates the ways in which thought and belief have inspired collective human endeavors and traditions. It brings the act of thinking into focus, outlining its effect on civic development while exploring the history of cultural epistemology. Spanning time periods and geographic regions, chapters derive new meaning from the connections between thought, belief, tradition and the cultures they create. They explore how active thi
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction to Thinking and Culture
- One. Thinking About Culture
- Ways of Thinking, Feeling and Acting
- Inescapable Community Stories
- Two. Creativity as Cultural Expression
- Symbols Disclose a Characteristic of Truth
- Three. Culture as the Spirit of Humanity
- Ideologies of Particular Importance
- Four. In Search of Cultural Reality
- A Timely Existence
- Five. Truth Is More Than a Way of Thinking
- Expressions as Truth and Untruth
- Six. Ways of Cultural Recollection
- Recollection as Social Orientation
- Seven. The Critical Nature of Culture
- The Universality of Ethics Thinking
- Eight. Knowledge and Cultural Thinking
- Understanding, Logic and Expression
- Nine. Cultural Spaces and Social Inclusion
- Sustaining Cultural Ways
- Ten. The Idea of Cultural Identity
- The Perceived Transformation
- Lost Identity
- Chapter Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
