Classical readings in culture and civilization, edited by John Rundell and Stephen Mennell

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Classical readings in culture and civilization, edited by John Rundell and Stephen Mennell

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edited by John Rundell and Stephen Mennell

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• Classical readings in culture and civilization

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• London | New York, Routledge, 1998

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Introduction : civilization, culture and the human self-image / John Rundell and Stephen Mennell -- Part I. Civilization as political transformation -- Civilization and enlightenment : idea for a universal history from a cosmopolitan point of view / Immanuel Kant -- Nations and civilizations : extracts from An essay on the history of civil society / Adam Ferguson -- Civilization, enlightenment and the New World : extracts from Notes on the state of Virginia / Thomas Jefferson -- Democracy and despotism : extracts from Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville -- Part II. Cultural critiques of civilization -- Civilization and romanticism : extracts from On the aesthetic education of man / Friedrich Schiller -- Civilization as cruelty : extract from On the genealogy of morals (second essay) / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Culture's inevitable loss : on the concept and tragedy of culture / Georg Simmel -- Militarism and culture : an extract from Reflections of a non-political man / Thomas Mann -- Civilization's streit : why war? / Sigmund Freud -- Part III. Sociology and anthropology : from civilization to civilizing processes -- Between sociology and anthropology I : note on the notion of civilization / Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss -- Between sociology and anthropology II : civilizations : elements and forms / Marcel Mauss -- History and civilization : civilization : evolution of a word and a group of ideas / Lucien Febvre -- Civilization and culture-- a synthesis : fundamentals of culture-sociology : social process, civilizational process and culture-movement / Alfred Weber -- Cities of culture, cities of civilization : the problem of cultural differences / Robert E. Park -- Civilization, culture, identity : "civilization" and "culture" : nationalism and nation-state formation : an extract from The Germans / Norbert Elias

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26 cm

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viii, 248 pages

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