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Historico-genetic Theory of Culture: On the Processual Logic of Cultural Change
Günter Dux
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Paperback. Num Pages: 414 pages, 5 b/w illus. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 137 x 30. Weight in Grams: 588.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
414
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
414
Place of Publication
, Germany
ISBN
9783837615135
SKU
V9783837615135
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About Günter Dux
Günter Dux teaches Sociology and Social Philosophy at the University of Freiburg (Germany).
Reviews for Historico-genetic Theory of Culture: On the Processual Logic of Cultural Change
Reviewed in: EthnoScripts, 1 (2012), Julia Dombrowski