Culture: A Drama of Nature and Person

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-69114-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 40, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 627 g

Reihe: Philosophy of History and Culture

This monograph represents a rare, classical-philosophical approach to culture. It is grounded in philosophical realism and emphasizes personalism as a true achievement of philosophical anthropology. Employing the apparatus of the history of philosophy, science and religion, the author demonstrates the immense scope of the drama unfolding within human culture. In a classical approach, evaluation is inevitable—with regard to various theories of culture, human culture as such, and all its main actors. Jaroszynski’s work shows that realistic study of what it means to be a human person leads to the most comprehensive understanding of culture as it is and should be.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jaroszy&

Jaroszynski, Piotr

Weitere Mitwirkende

Stepien, Maciej B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Kulturphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editor’s Preface

Introduction

PART 1: Culture in Science

1 Sciences Concerning Culture

1 Particular Sciences Concerning Culture

2 Philosophy of Culture

2 Culture: A History of the Term and Concept

1 From the Cultivation of the Soil to the Cultivation of the Soul

2 Culture and Cultus

3 From the Culture of the Mind to the Culture of Mankind

4 From National Culture to Mass Culture

5 Civilization and Culture

3 Selected Definitions of Culture

1 Social Dimension of Culture

2 Transmission of Culture

3 Culture and Values

4 Culture and Symbol

5 Culture and Meaning

6 Culture and Behavioral Models

7 Culture and Cultural Fields

8 Culture and Person

PART 2: Theories of Culture

4 From Mythology to Philosophy: Nature vs. Culture in Antiquity

1 Nature and Man

2 From Negation to Apotheosis of Nature (Empedocles and the Sophists)

3 Divine Origins of Culture (Plato)

3.1 Philosophical Variant

3.2 Mythological Variant

4 “With Reason and Téchne” (Aristotle)

5 The Soul Is God (Plotinus)

5 Between Philosophy and Theology: Christianity

1 In Search of Perfection

2 Natura Corrupta (Thomas Aquinas)

3 Towards Anti-Cosmism (Manichaeism and Gnosis)

4 Natura Totaliter Corrupta (Protestantism)

6 Between Philosophy and Ideology

1 Nature Worship: Nature Is Perfect

2 Apotheosis of Culture: Culture Produces Nature

2.1 Individualism (Sartre)

2.2 Further Perspectives of Positioning of the Concept of Culture

3 Recapitulation

PART 3: Foundations of Culture: Truth, Goodness, Beauty

Introduction to Part 3

7 Truth

8 Goodness

1 Finalism

2 Emanationism

3 Creationism

9 Beauty

PART 4: Cultural Fields

Über Autor(innen)

Piotr Jaroszynski, Ph.D. (1983), John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, Chair of the Department of the Philosophy of Culture and Rhetoric. He has published many articles and monographs in English on the philosophy of culture, including Science in Culture (Rodopi, 2007) and Metaphysics or Ontology? (Brill, 2018).