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Cultural Transactions : Nature, Self, Society / Paul Hernadi.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: 1995Description: 1 online resource (144 p.) : 3 drawingsContent type:
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  • 9781501735011
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.2 20/eng/20230216
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Enticements and Forewarnings -- Chapter One. How to Do, Make, and Mean Things with Words -- Chapter Two. The Performance, Recording, and Mental Rehearsal of Cultural Transactions -- Chapter Three. Who We Are: The Rhetoric, Grammar, and Logic of Communal Identities -- Chapter Four. Society, Nature, Selves: Freedom and Diversity -- Chapter Five. Four More Triads and Beyond -- Epilogue: Loose Ends and Afterthoughts -- Index
Summary: In this provocative book, Paul Hernadi goes beyond current intersubjectivist approaches to cultural phenomena, maintaining instead that the natural, the personal, and the social are complementary dimensions of all human making, doing, and meaning. His chief concern is with verbal communication, but he also considers music and architecture, cooking and business, television and film, basketball and chess.For centuries, Hernadi notes, people viewed either matter or mind—nature or spirit—as the ultimate principle of being and becoming. In contrast, much contemporary theory assumes that reality is socially constructed. While recognizing the powers of culture, Hernadi pays close attention to the material conditions and personal responsibilities of human agency as well. Tracing both continuities and disruptions in key intellectual traditions, he relates his conceptions of culture, existence, and experience to three classic triads: the rhetorical aims of moving, delighting, and teaching; the psychological capacities of willing, feeling, and knowing; and the evaluative criteria of justice, beauty, and truth.Discussing such controversies as the conflict between Lacanian and Derridean viewpoints, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in literary theory, feminist theory, and the intersections of psychoanalysis and philosophy in literary criticism.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Enticements and Forewarnings -- Chapter One. How to Do, Make, and Mean Things with Words -- Chapter Two. The Performance, Recording, and Mental Rehearsal of Cultural Transactions -- Chapter Three. Who We Are: The Rhetoric, Grammar, and Logic of Communal Identities -- Chapter Four. Society, Nature, Selves: Freedom and Diversity -- Chapter Five. Four More Triads and Beyond -- Epilogue: Loose Ends and Afterthoughts -- Index

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In this provocative book, Paul Hernadi goes beyond current intersubjectivist approaches to cultural phenomena, maintaining instead that the natural, the personal, and the social are complementary dimensions of all human making, doing, and meaning. His chief concern is with verbal communication, but he also considers music and architecture, cooking and business, television and film, basketball and chess.For centuries, Hernadi notes, people viewed either matter or mind—nature or spirit—as the ultimate principle of being and becoming. In contrast, much contemporary theory assumes that reality is socially constructed. While recognizing the powers of culture, Hernadi pays close attention to the material conditions and personal responsibilities of human agency as well. Tracing both continuities and disruptions in key intellectual traditions, he relates his conceptions of culture, existence, and experience to three classic triads: the rhetorical aims of moving, delighting, and teaching; the psychological capacities of willing, feeling, and knowing; and the evaluative criteria of justice, beauty, and truth.Discussing such controversies as the conflict between Lacanian and Derridean viewpoints, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in literary theory, feminist theory, and the intersections of psychoanalysis and philosophy in literary criticism.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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