Suchergebnisse

Culture gone bad -- Cultural contradiction and compartmentalization -- Fixing the trouble with culture: relativism, postmodernism, and automation -- The human rage to classify -- Classification and the common law -- Automated classification and indexing -- The automated mode in principle -- The automated mode in practice -- The new superorganic -- Opening culture, expanding individuals

"This book is a uniquely original assessment of the consequences of recent technologies for the conventional meanings, shared values and symbols that constitute culture. As with the geological shifts generated by the earth's tectonic plates, technologies produce novel and sometimes jarring realignments among cultural institutions. Lucid prose featuring vivid examples and insightful analysis describes how contemporary reproductive, medical, genetic, and information technologies forge unprecedented family relationships, produce a new mode of thinking based on the confluence of artificial and human intelligence, and reconfigure conventional scales of time and space. Taken together, they redefine what it is to be human"--

No issue is more hotly contested in the culture wars than the proper place of religion in public life. On the one side are those who insist that religion is a purely private matter with no place in government. In contrast are those who hold that government should adhere to religious principles and that certain religiously grounded imperatives are so necessary to the human condition that they should be binding on everyone. Prominent among the latter forces is the Christian right.

Usable Pasts: Traditions and Group Expressions in North America. Tad Tuleja. ed. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1997.336 pp.