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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Culture returns

Johan Fornäs

pp. 165-194

Abstract

Part III suggests ways to improve the concept of culture and propose what culture should mean, defending a post-antihermeneutic approach. It offers systematic considerations for rethinking culture: refining a communicative concept of culture, integrating insights won through close and dialogical readings of contesting texts. Through such extensive detour, culture returns, in a critical hermeneutic shape sharpened by the previous critiques. Chapter  9 starts by differentiating between strong and weak critiques, and presenting two inseparable cornerstone theses derived from cultural theorists such as Yuri Lotman and in particular Paul Ricoeur. Thesis 1 says that culture is meaning-making practice involving creative imagination. Thesis 2 specifies that culture relies on communicative mediation between texts, subjects and contexts.

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Forns Johan, Fornäs Johan (2017) Defending culture: conceptual foundations and contemporary debate. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 165-194

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-57810-1_9

Full citation:

Fornäs Johan (2017) Culture returns, In: Defending culture, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 165–194.