Historico-genetic Theory of Culture : : On the Processual Logic of Cultural Change / / Günter Dux.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Dux, Günter,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: Sozialtheorie
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (414 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Content --; I. On the Tracks of Modernity --; II. The Schism of the two Logics: Maintaining the Absolutist Logic --; III. The Revolution in Cognitive Theory: Ontogenesis and History --; IV. Regaining History --; Literature --; Index of Names --; Index of Subjects
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839415139; 9783111025230; 9783110661552; 9783110352856; 9783110370744
• DOI: 10.1515/transcript.9783839415139?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Günter Dux.

The book focuses on the modern understanding of human life-forms as constructs that followed an evolutionary history. The author thus finds science confronted with two questions: firstly, how the transgression of the virtual threshold between natural and cultural history was possible, secondly, how the socio-cultural constructs were able to develop in the course of history the way they did. The discussion concentrates on the problem of determining a processual logic in the development of societal structures as well as in the development of cognition. The focus of attention is the historico-genetic reconstruction of cognition.The book was originally published in German as »Historisch-genetische Theorie der Kultur« (Weilerswist 2000: Velbrück).