This Culture Of Ours
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This Culture Of Ours
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Author : Peter K. Bol
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1994-08-01
This Culture Of Ours written by Peter K. Bol and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-08-01 with History categories.
This book traces the shared culture of the Chinese elite from the seventh to the twelfth centuries. The early T'ang definition of 'This Culture of Ours' combined literary and scholarly traditions from the previous five centuries. The late Sung Neo-Confucian movement challenged that definition. The author argues that the Tang-Sung transition is best understood as a transition from a literary view of culture - in which literary accomplishment and mastery of traditional forms were regarded as essential - to the ethical orientation of Neo-Confucianism, in which the cultivation of one's innate moral ability was regarded as the goal of learning. The author shows that this transformation paralleled the collapse of the T'ang order and the restoration of a centralized empire under the Sung, underscoring the connection between elite formation and political institutions.
The Culture In Our Nation
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Author : Marian Olivia Heath Griffin
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Us
Release Date : 2023-06-06
The Culture In Our Nation written by Marian Olivia Heath Griffin and has been published by Xlibris Us this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-06 with categories.
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Culture
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Author : Terry Eagleton
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2016-05-24
Culture written by Terry Eagleton and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-24 with Philosophy categories.
Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human. Defining culture and pinpointing its role in our lives is not, however, so straightforward. Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, is uniquely poised to take on the challenge. In this keenly analytical and acerbically funny book, he explores how culture and our conceptualizations of it have evolved over the last two centuries—from rarified sphere to humble practices, and from a bulwark against industrialism’s encroaches to present-day capitalism’s most profitable export. Ranging over art and literature as well as philosophy and anthropology, and major but somewhat "unfashionable" thinkers like Johann Gottfried Herder and Edmund Burke as well as T. S. Eliot, Matthew Arnold, Raymond Williams, and Oscar Wilde, Eagleton provides a cogent overview of culture set firmly in its historical and theoretical contexts, illuminating its collusion with colonialism, nationalism, the decline of religion, and the rise of and rule over the "uncultured" masses. Eagleton also examines culture today, lambasting the commodification and co-option of a force that, properly understood, is a vital means for us to cultivate and enrich our social lives, and can even provide the impetus to transform civil society.
A Cultural History Of Civil Examinations In Late Imperial China
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Author : Benjamin A. Elman
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2000-03-22
A Cultural History Of Civil Examinations In Late Imperial China written by Benjamin A. Elman and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-03-22 with History categories.
"A very important study of one of the most important institutions in Chinese history, one without which the China we have today would certainly be a vastly different place."—Peter Bol, author of "This Culture of Ours": Intellectual Transitions in T'ang and Sung China
The Secret Of Our Success
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Author : Joseph Henrich
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2017-10-17
The Secret Of Our Success written by Joseph Henrich and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-17 with Psychology categories.
How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosper Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of diverse environments. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals? This book shows that the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains—on the ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another over generations. Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, mobile hunter-gatherers, neuroscientific findings, ancient bones, and the human genome, Joseph Henrich demonstrates how our collective brains have propelled our species' genetic evolution and shaped our biology. Our early capacities for learning from others produced many cultural innovations, such as fire, cooking, water containers, plant knowledge, and projectile weapons, which in turn drove the expansion of our brains and altered our physiology, anatomy, and psychology in crucial ways. Later on, some collective brains generated and recombined powerful concepts, such as the lever, wheel, screw, and writing, while also creating the institutions that continue to alter our motivations and perceptions. Henrich shows how our genetics and biology are inextricably interwoven with cultural evolution, and how culture-gene interactions launched our species on an extraordinary evolutionary trajectory. Tracking clues from our ancient past to the present, The Secret of Our Success explores how the evolution of both our cultural and social natures produce a collective intelligence that explains both our species' immense success and the origins of human uniqueness.
One Nation Two Cultures
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Author : Gertrude Himmelfarb
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2001-01-30
One Nation Two Cultures written by Gertrude Himmelfarb and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-30 with Political Science categories.
From one of today's most respected historians and cultural critics comes a new book examining the gulf in American society--a division that cuts across class, racial, ethnic, political and sexual lines. One side originated in the tradition of republican virtue, the other in the counterculture of the late 1960s. Himmelfarb argues that, while the latter generated the dominant culture of today-particularly in universities, journalism, television, and film--a "dissident culture" continues to promote the values of family, a civil society, sexual morality, privacy, and patriotism. Proposing democratic remedies for our moral and cultural diseases, Himmelfarb concludes that it is a tribute to Americans that we remain "one nation" even as we are divided into "two cultures."
Thus Spoke Zarathustra Beyond Good And Evil Hellenism Pessimism 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books In One Volume
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Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
language : en
Publisher: e-artnow
Release Date : 2017-04-17
Thus Spoke Zarathustra Beyond Good And Evil Hellenism Pessimism 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books In One Volume written by Friedrich Nietzsche and has been published by e-artnow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None" chronicles the fictitious travels and speeches of Zarathustra, the founder of Zoroastrianism. Zarathustra contains the famous dictum "God is dead" and the concept of the "Übermensch" (overman or superman). In "Beyond Good and Evil" Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their consideration of morality. The work moves into the realm "beyond good and evil" in the sense of leaving behind the traditional morality which Nietzsche subjects to a destructive critique in favour of what he regards as an affirmative approach. "The Birth of Tragedy or, Hellenism and Pessimism" is a work of dramatic theory which discusses the history of the tragic form and introduces an intellectual dichotomy between the Dionysian and the Apollonian. Nietzsche believed that in classical Athenian tragedy an art form that transcended the pessimism and nihilism of a fundamentally meaningless world. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history. Because of Nietzsche's evocative style and provocative ideas, his philosophy generates passionate reactions. His works remain controversial, due to varying interpretations and misinterpretations of his work. In the Western philosophy tradition, Nietzsche's writings have been described as the unique case of free revolutionary thought, that is, revolutionary in its structure and problems, although not tied to any revolutionary project
One Nation Two Cultures
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Author : Gertrude Himmelfarb
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 1999
One Nation Two Cultures written by Gertrude Himmelfarb and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Current Events categories.
"Gertrude Himmelfarb taught at the Graduate School of the City University of New York, where she was named Distinguished Professor of History in 1978."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
London Graffiti And Street Art
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Author : Joe Epstein LDNGraffiti
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2014-07-10
London Graffiti And Street Art written by Joe Epstein LDNGraffiti and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-10 with Art categories.
Over the decades, London has become a diverse landscape for all forms of graffiti and street art. From the better-known artists, down to the constant stream of fresh new talent attracted to the streets, London is a graffiti artist’s paradise and the images represent a London simmering with artistic flair. Featuring glossy photos of ground-breaking graffiti, London Graffiti and Street Art is the perfect companion for anyone excited by this most vibrant and changing of art form, and aims to give an insight into the creative output lost and found in and around the capital.
This Is China
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Author : Haiwang Yuan
language : en
Publisher: Berkshire Publishing
Release Date : 2010
This Is China written by Haiwang Yuan and has been published by Berkshire Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
This Is China contains, in brief, everything we need to know about 5,000 years of history, 30 years of "opening," and a future that promises to shape the 21st century for all of us. Drawn from the vast resources of the Berkshire Encyclopedia of China, this concise 120-page book is recommended for classroom use, curriculum development, and student review.