Culture, science, society : : the constitution of cultural modernity / / by Gyorgy Markus.

• Superior document: Social and critical theory, v. 10
• Author: Markus, Gyorgy, 1934-
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Social and critical theory ; v. 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (680 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The closely interrelated essays in this volume address the question of the internal dynamism of the high culture of modernity in its paradoxical constitution as the complementary unity of strict opposites: the sciences (philosophy included) and the arts. Special attention is paid to the internal strains of these two great fields in our contemporaneity. It discusses on the one hand the role of experts and, on the other, that of the market in both of these areas . It also deals with the hermeneutical relationship between author - work - recipient and its historical transformations. Although essays deal with the complex philosophical issues, these are discussed in a clear way, approcheable for a person with a broad philosophical interest. They are, however, addressed primarily to philosophers, social scientists, culturologists and aestheticians.

Table of Contents

A society of culture : the constitution of modernity -- Beyond the dichotomy : praxis and poiesis -- The paradoxical unity of culture : the arts and the sciences -- Interpretation of, and interpretation in, philosophy -- The ends of metaphysics -- Changing images of science -- Why is there no hermeneutics of natural sciences? : some preliminary theses -- After the system : philosophy in the epoch of sciences -- On our beliefs : about the cognitive structure of contemporary culture -- Culture : the making and the make-up of a concept : an essay in historical semantics -- Condorcet : communication/science/democracy -- Money and the book : Kant and the crisis of the German Enlightenment -- The Hegelian concept of culture -- Hegel and the end of art -- Marxism and theories of culture -- On ideology-critique--critically -- A philosophy lost : German philosophies of culture at the end of the nineteenth century -- Life and the soul : the young Lukacs and the problem of culture -- Walter Benjamin, or, The commodity as phantasmagoria -- Adorno and mass culture : autonomous art against the culture industry -- Antinomies of "culture."