Cultural Revolutions
Reason Versus Culture in Philosophy, Politics, and Jihad
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23545936 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lawrence Cahoone, Lawrence E Cahoone |
| Year | 2005 |
| Pages | 231 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Cultural Revolutions (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Penn State University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.26530/oapen_625750 |
| OpenAlex | W654829200 |
| ISBN | 9780271025247 |
| Open Library | OL9858947M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Cultural Revolutions argues that reason itself is cultural, but no less reasonable for it. Lawrence Cahoone systematically defines culture and gauges the consequences of the ineradicably cultural nature of cognition and action, yet argues that none of this implies relativism. Cahoone offers a definition of culture as teleologically organized practices, artifacts, and narratives and analyzes the notion of cultural membership in relation to race, ethnicity, and “primordialism.” He provides a theory of culture’s role in how we form our sense of reality and argues that the proper conception of culture dissolves “the problem” of cultural relativism. Applying this perspective to Islamic fundamentalism, Cahoone identifies its conflict with the West as representing the break between two of three historically distinctive forms of reason. Rather than being “irrational,” he shows, fundamentalism embodies a rationality only recently devalued—but not entirely abandoned—by the West.
Aesthetics · Environmental ethics · Political science · Politics · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political theory and Gramsci · 20th century · 21st century · Anthropology · Anthropology, cultural · Archaeology · Cognitie · Cognition and culture · Cognition et culture · Conflit culturel · Cultural relativism · Cultural studies · Culture conflict · Cultuurconflicten · General · Gesellschaft · Histoire sociale · Kultur · Kulturkonflikt · Kulturtheorie · Multiculturalism · Multiculturalisme · Multikulturelle gesellschaft · Politics & State · Politieke theoriee n · Relativisme culturel · Relativismus · Religion · Social conditions · Social history · Social sciences · Sociology - Social Theory · Sociology & Social History
| Citations per year | 0.23 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2019 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |