Mühlmann MSC Maximal Stress Cooperation

The Driving Force of Cultures
2005
ISBN: 978-3-211-33322-8
Verlag: Springer Wien
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 71 Seiten, eBook

In 1996 my book ‘The Nature of Cultures’ appeared in Vi- na and New York. It describes cultures as systems which are controlled by MSC and decorum. While MSC is a neologism meaning ‘maximal stress cooperation’ decorum is a very old term. It is as old as Western culture itself, and is furthermore, the translation of the even older Greek word ‘prepon’. Decorum and prepon mean ‘to be suitable, to be fitting’. It is all about the fitting of cultural medial contents to elementary cultural behavioural types and behavioural phases. These behavioural units are subject to a type of ranking system in which that which is essential is sorted from that which less essential. - corum then means – the representations of the media must ‘fit’ the ranking of the cultural behaviour. It is MSC which assumes the top position in this ranking. In 1996 and the two previous years when I was working on my book ‘The Nature of Cultures’ less than 5 years had passed since the Iron Curtain had been lifted. Many believed at that time that with ending of the Cold War, which was more or less de facto peace anyway, that a new and better age of peace was dawning.

Zielgruppe

Popular/general

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mühlmann, Heiner

Inhaltsverzeichnis

MSC — Maximal Stress Cooperation.

Über Autor(innen)

HEINER MÜHLMANN, studied art history and philosophy. Numerous professorships, including Münster and Paris. Currently professor at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Zurich as well as having the Chair of Aesthetics and Rhetoric at the University of Wuppertal.