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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"philosophy of culture"”.
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A Thomistic Philosophy of Culture
<p>Nicolas Berdyaev in The End of Our Time characterizes modem history as "an unfolding of ideas and events wherein we see Humanism destroying itself by its own dialectic, for the putting up of man without God and against God, the denial of the divine image and likeness in himself, lead to his own …
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An Intellectual History of Roger Scruton's Thought
… to systematise and to contextualise the thought of Roger Scruton. In the former endeavour, it is a sympathetic work. I have looked to see order between his texts, and I have argued for its substantial reality. One of the major theses which this work puts forward is that Scruton is not an …
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The Principles of Philosophical Community
… forming a “tripod” as it were, that grounds philosophy as a cultural activity. The two commonly known modes are, first philosophical geniuses who make models of reality in their “solitary burrows” (such as a Kant and Peirce); and, second, philosophical wanderers who have an embodied praxis, …
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Ironic American Exceptionalism and the Myth of the Open Self
<p>This work rethinks current interpretations of American exceptionalism, emphasizing dynamic relations, especially those we could call "ironic." I am reading Reinhold Niebuhr's The Irony of American History alongside Eric Voegelin's and Woodrow Wilson's philosophical and political treatment of …
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The Aesthetic Agency of Popular Culture in the Writings of Pierre Bourdieu and Arthur C. Danto
ABSTRACT The Aesthetic Agency of Popular Culture: In the Writings of Pierre Bourdieu and Arthur C. Danto Rebecca L. Farinas, Ph.D. Pierre Bourdieu and Arthur C. Danto are significant interlocutors in the areas of aesthetics and popular culture. This study affirmatively answers a question raised by …