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Title

Historico-genetic theory of culture : on the processual logic of cultural change / Günter Dux.

Author

Dux, Günter.

Publication

Bielefeld : Transcript, c2011.

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Additional Authors

Solomon, Neil

Description

414 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Sociology

Uniform Title

• Historisch-genetische Theorie der Kultur. English
• Sociology (Bielefeld, Germany)

Alternative Title

• Historisch-genetische Theorie der Kultur.
• On the processual logic of cultural change

Subject

• Civilization > History
• Civilization > Philosophy
• Culture > Philosophy
• Social evolution

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: I. On the Tracks of Modernity -- 1. The Search for the Reestablished Unity of the World -- 1. The Whole Story: History in its Entirety -- 2. The link to Natural History -- 3. The Cognitive Presuppositions of Modernity -- 4. The Problem of Historical Understanding -- 2. The Radical Change In Modernity's Understanding of the World -- 1. The Change in the Structure of the Understanding of Nature -- 2. The Machine Model as Paradigm -- 3. Machina Mundi: The Process of Secularization -- 4. The Removal of Mind from Nature -- 5. Mind as Successor Organization -- 3. The Copernlcan Turn: The Consciousness of Convergence, Constructivism, and Historicity -- 1. The Dimension of Epistemological Critique -- 2. Sociocultural Life-Forms as Construct -- 3. The Consciousness of Historicity -- 4. The Anthropological Constitution as a Condition of Enculturation: The Structures of Mind in Culture -- 1. The Difference Between Media -- 2. Anthropology as a Basic Science -- 3. From-Philosophical to Biological Anthropology -- 4. The Reductionism of Sociobiology -- 5. Constructive Autonomy -- 6. The Key to Enculturation: Ontogenesis -- 7. Mind and Culture in Historico-Genetic Theory -- 5. The Three Worlds -- 1. World -- 2. Nature -- 3. Society -- 4. Inner World and Inner Nature -- 6. Misunderstood Modernity: Resume I -- 1. Intermediate Reflections -- 2. Constructive Autonomy -- 3. Pointed Toward History -- 4. Worlds Not World -- 5. The Change in Logic in Modernity's Understanding of the World -- II. THE SCHISM OF LOGICS: THE PERSTISTENCE OF ABSOLUTE LOGIC -- 7. The Subject Logic of Premodern Thought: The Logical Priority of Mind -- 1. Material Logic in the Organization of the World -- 2. Material Logic in Early Thought -- 3. Structural Moments of Subjectivist Logic -- 8. The Reflexiveness of Logic In the Semantics of Philosophical Understandings of the World -- 1. The One, Commonly Shared Logic -- 2. The World in the Logic of Absolute Mind -- 9. Holding Its Own: Absolutist Logic in the Modern Understanding of Convergence and Constructivism -- 1. Towards an Understanding of Transcendentalism -- 2. The Invective Against the Absolute in Philosophy -- 3. The Persistence of Absolutist Logic in the Linguistic and Communicative Turn -- 4. The Persistence of Absolutist Logic in Systems Theory -- 5. The Mental Blockade to the Understanding of Constructivism -- 10. The Loss of History -- 1. On Historical Understanding -- 2. Heretical Comments on the Enterprise of Science -- 3. Development and Developmental Logic -- 4. Understanding Foreign Worlds: The Cognitive Opportunities of Modernity -- 11. Processual Logic In the Thought of Modernity -- 1. Thought Based on the Priority of Nature -- 2. From Absolute to Systemic-Processual Logic -- 3. Overcoming the Schism of Logic -- 12. Reconstruction as Critique of Knowledge and Method of Historical Understanding -- 1. Reconstruction as Construct from Conditions -- 2. The Problem of the Presupposition -- 3. Transforming the Knowable into Knowledge -- 13. The Old Logic and the New: Resume II -- 1. The Reality of the World -- 2. The Reality of the System-Environment Relationship -- 3. Constructive Realism -- Realistic Constructivism -- 4. The Indisputability of Processual Logic -- 5. Ontogenesis and History -- III. The Revolution in Coginitive Theory: Ontogenesis and History -- 14. The Ontogenetic Turn In Piaget's Genetic Theory: Its Significance for History -- 1. The Discovery of Ontogenesis -- 2. A Genuine Revolution -- 3. Naturalism -- 4. The Development of Operationalism -- 5. Constructive Realism -- 6. Pragmatism and Constructive Realism -- 7. Requirements of a Genetic Theory -- 15. Piaget in the Face of History -- 1. Links Between Ontogenetic and Historical Thought -- 2. Attempts to Explain the Connection Between Ontogenesis and History -- 3. Irritations -- 4. Manifest Doubts About the Universality of Developmental Stages -- 5. Psychogenesis, History, and Science -- 16. From a Genetic to Historico-Genetic Theory -- 1. The Instability of the World -- 2. The Subject as Constructor of the Demiurgic Process -- 3. Operational and Categorical Structures in the Formational and Developmental Process of Cognition -- 4. Ontogenesis and History -- 17. The Genesis of Communication and Language -- 1. The End of the Mental Barrier -- 2. Language as Medium in the Process of Constructing the World -- 3. The Naturalism of Generative Transformational Grammar -- 4. The Genesis of Language in the Ontogenesis of the Members of the Species -- 5. The Development of Language in the Context of the Acquisition Process of the Competence to Act -- 6. Construct, not "copy" -- 7. Language and society -- 18. Society and the Pragmatics of Language -- 1. The Ontic Difference -- 2. Locution, Illocution, Perlocution -- 3. The Intentionality of Illocutionary Acts -- 4. Normative Demands -- 19. A Theory of Cognition with Systematic Intent: Resume III -- 1. Advantages of a Reconstructive Strategy -- 2. The Universality of Early Structures -- 3. Nature and Mind -- 4. The Reconstruction of Language -- 5. The Entry into History -- IV. REGAINING HISTORY -- 20. The History of Society and the History of Culture -- 1. The Discovery of the Link Between Society and Culture -- 2. The Systemic Organization of Society and Culture in a Historico-Genetic Theory -- 21. The Development of Societal Structures: From the Early Societies to Archaic Civilization -- 1. The Organization of the Early Societies of Hunters and Gatherers -- 2. The Neolithic Revolution and the Transition to Simple Agrarian Societies -- 3. The Rise of Archaic Civilizations and the Formation of Domination and the State -- 22. The Development of Logico-Arithmetical Structures -- 1. The Universality of the Early Phases of Cognitive Development -- 2. The Limits of Operational Competence or: The Mental Block -- 3. Practice and Judgment -- 4. Cross-Cultural Research and the Theory of Cognition -- 23. Worldview and Material Logic from Early Times to the Time of Archaic Civilizations -- 1. Material Logic and Categorical Structures -- 2. The Genesis of the Material Logic of Premodernity -- 3. The Structure of Action as Material Logic -- 4. The Advance in Knowledge -- 5. The Reflexive Achievement of Archaic Civilizations: The Consciousness of Culture -- 24. Greek Antiquity as a Precursor to Modernity: Societal Development and Philosophical Reflection -- 1. The Development of the Athenian Polis to Democracy -- 2. The Genesis of Greek Philosophy as an Ontology of Reason -- 3. Ontologization as the Beginning of the Deontologization of Reason -- 25. The Process of Secularization In the Middle Ages: Urban Organizational Form as the Form of Thought of Modernity -- 1. The Feudal Organization of Medieval Societies -- 2. The Organizational Form of the Town as Form of Thought -- 3. The Autarkic World of the Atomists -- 4. World Time: The Time of the Town -- 5. The Significance of Impetus Theory -- 26. In Conclusion: How Modernity Views Itself -- In the Perspective of the Historical Developmental Logic of Mind -- 1. A Different History -- 2. The Genesis of Mind in Processual Logic -- 3. Ontogenesis and History I -- 4. Media as Organizing Forms of Society -- 5. The Developmental Logic of Society -- 6. On the Developmental Logic of Thought.

ISBN

9783837615135 (English edition : pbk.)

OCLC

• 699758990
• SCSB-12861405

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library