Visions of Culture and the Models of Cultural Sciences / / Jerzy Kmita.

• Superior document: Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities Series ; v.15
• VerfasserIn: Kmita, Jerzy,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill Academic Publishers,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (308 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part One: Methodological orientations in the studies on culture -- Theories of culture and studies of participation in culture in Polish sociology -- The image of the literary work in present day sociological studies -- The theoretical and methodological context of the differentiation between magic and religion in the conception of Hubert, Mauss and Durkheim -- Reconstruction of myth in the semantics of A.J. Greimas -- Antinaturalistic principles of systematizing statements in art studies -- Reflection on the methodology of social sciences in the critical theory of Jürgen Habermas -- From critical theory to a theory of communicative action: a change of paradigm? -- Types of cognitive and moral relativism and Herskovits' cultural relativism -- Theoretical problems of reinterpretation -- On two "intrinsic" meanings of music -- Part Two: Science as a domain of culture -- The legacy of magic in science -- Theory of science in the light of recent methodological discussions -- The epistemological aspects of the controversy over cultural relativism -- Ethnocentrism, eurocentrism, scientocentrism -- Structuralist overdetermination and historical materialism -- Part Three: On culture and cultural participation -- Psychological versus cultural approaches to participation in culture -- On application of the notion of pedagogical culture -- Logical semantics and psychology of cognitive processes -- Study of language as a form of symbolic culture: methodological foundations -- Contemporary musical consciousness in the perspective of the socio-pragmatic theory of culture -- Valorization of tradition as a means of preserving the continuity of culture.