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      Classical Readings in Culture and Civilization
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      Classical Readings in Culture and Civilization book

      Edited ByJohn Rundell, Stephen Mennell
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 1998
      eBook Published 31 December 2017
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351227025
      Pages 256
      eBook ISBN 9781351227025
      Subjects Humanities
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      Rundell, J., & Mennell, S. (Eds.). (1998). Classical Readings in Culture and Civilization (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351227025

      ABSTRACT

      In recent times, especially under the influence of postmodernism, culture has often been construed as a critique of modernity. This wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of readings shows that such issues have always been at the centre of thought about the relationship between culture and civilization The readings are divided into three sections, linking the civilization debate to political theory, to the cultural debate and to the sociology and anthropology. The substantial extracts included give students a rare chance to engage at length with classic texts to appreciate the nature of the battle between the Enlightenment and its critics which has shaped current thought. Classical Readings on Culture and Civilisation presents essays from Immanuel Kant, Adam Ferguson, Thomas Jefferson, Alexis de Tocqueville, Friedrich von Schiller, Friedrich Nietzche, Georg Simmel, Thomas Mann, Sigmund Freud, Emile Durkheim, Marcel Mauss, Lucien Febvre, Alfred Weber, Robert E. Park and Norbert Elias.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |35 pages

      Introduction: Civilization, Culture and the Human Self-Image

      ByJohn Rundell, Stephen Mennell

      section I|46 pages

      Civilization as Political Transformation

      chapter 1|9 pages

      Civilization and Enlightenment

      ‘Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View’ 1 (1784)
      ByImmanuel Kant

      chapter 2|13 pages

      Nations and Civilizations

      Extracts from An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767)
      ByAdam Ferguson

      chapter 3|12 pages

      Civilization, Enlightenment and the New World

      Extracts from Notes on the State of Virginia (1781)
      ByThomas Jefferson

      chapter 4|10 pages

      Democracy and Despotism

      Extracts from Democracy in America, Vol. 2 (1840)
      ByAlexis de Tocqueville

      part II|65 pages

      Cultural Critiques of Civilization

      chapter 5|10 pages

      Civilization and Romanticism

      Extracts from On the Aesthetic Education of Man, in a Series of Letters (1794)
      ByFriedrich Schiller

      chapter 6|20 pages

      Civilization as Cruelty

      Extract from On the Genealogy of Morals, Second essay (1887)
      ByFriedrich Nietzsche

      chapter 7|15 pages

      Culture’s Inevitable Loss

      ‘On the Concept and Tragedy of Culture’ (1911)
      ByGeorg Simmel

      chapter 8|9 pages

      Militarism and Culture

      An extract from Reflections of a Non-political Man (1918)
      ByThomas Mann

      chapter 9|9 pages

      Civilization's Streit

      ‘Why War?’ (1932)
      BySigmund Freud

      part III|92 pages

      Sociology and Anthropology: From Civilization to Civilizing Processes

      chapter 10|4 pages

      Between Sociology and Anthropology I

      ‘Note on the Notion of Civilization’ (1913)
      ByEntile Durkheim, Marcel Mauss

      chapter 11|5 pages

      Between Sociology and Anthropology II

      ‘Civilizations: Elements and Forms’ (1929)
      ByMarcel Mauss

      chapter 12|31 pages

      History and Civilization

      ‘Civilisation: Evolution of a Word and a Group of Ideas’ (1930)
      ByLucien Febvre

      chapter 13|25 pages

      Civilization and Culture — A Synthesis

      “Fundamentals of Culture-Sociology: Social Process, Civilizational Process and Culture-Movement” (1921)
      ByAlfred Weber

      chapter 14|9 pages

      Cities of Culture, Cities of Civilization

      ‘The Problem of Cultural Differences’ (1931)
      ByRobert E. Park

      chapter 15|16 pages

      Civilization, Culture, Identity

      ‘“Civilisation” and “Culture”: Nationalism and Nation-State Formation’: an extract from The Germans (1989)
      ByNorbert Elias
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