In the tradition of Vico, Compte, Weber, Norbert Elias and Charles E. Lindblom, this volume is a statement on both the nature of cultural development and the interpretation of our confused present. Arguing that tha crucial changes in human cultural history correlate with fundamental transformations in modes of representation, Redner traces human development from primitive culture to that of the present age, an age that is still, he argues, fundamentally modernist.
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Part 1 Historical anthropology of culture in premodernity: culture versus language - the semiotic fundamentals; civilization and the axial cultures - Greece, Israel, India and China; classicism - the mimetic tradition in the West. Part 2 The opening and closing phases of European modernity: reformation and modernity - the representationalist culture; revolution and conclusion - the crisis of modernism. Part 3 Culture in a technological world civilization: Descartes; dream or the future of science; the image or the future of politics; the snakeskin or the future of art; inconclusive conclusion.
