The Cultural Dialectics of Knowledge and Desire
Published on 30. November 1996
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-299-15120-1 (ISBN)
Description
Offering a cognitive and psychoanalytic approach, this work asks why culture is a problem that can never be solved. It develops a theory of cultural dialectics based on the concept of paradox, in which it shows how ambivalence and conflicts are at the heart of all cultural knowledge systems.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wisconsin
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
25 b&w photographs
Weight
333 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-299-15120-1 (9780299151201)
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