Intellectual Freedom and the Culture Wars
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An Attempt Toward a Natural/Unnatural History of The Lay-Scientific Interface or How Walker Percy Got on the Way to Becoming a Radical (Anthropologist)
In Walker Percy, Philosopher anthropologyCharles Sanders PeirceculturePhilosophy of LanguageScientismScott CunninghamWalker Percy
Provocations
This should be a cracking read. aestheticsCamille PagliacultureLiberal educationregressive left
The ‘Clash of Civilizations’ and Realism in International Political Thought
Davide Orsi et al. discuss Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations 25 years on. (Complete book open access) cultureDavide Orsi.islamMichael OakeshottPolitical philosophyregressive leftSamuel P. HuntingtonThomas Hobbes
Paying equal attention to nature and culture
The fifth installment of Marc Champagne’s podcast. To keep apprised of Marc’s work see his website. ArchetypesCarl JungcultureJordan PetersonMarc ChampagneNature
Walker Percy Wednesday 177
CULTURE AS A SUBJECT OF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD What happens when the functional method of the sciences is applied to cultural phenomena? Does culture lend itself to such an understanding? If there are difficulties in the cultural sciences, are the difficulties due to the complexity of the material, as is often alleged, or are the…
What is a Nation in Nationalism?
The very excellent Efriam Podoksik has a timely paper published in The Journal of Political Philosophy: Volume 25, Number 3, 2017, pp. 303–323. Challenging this dichotomy I suggested a tripartite scheme where nation as a self-sufficient high-culture community is the centre, whereas civic community and ethnic group are its peripheral mutations. Contrary to the common…
Measuring the Evolution of Contemporary Western Popular Music
This study from a few years back confirms what genuine music lovers already know to be the general trend in the homogenization of music. Full report in Scientific Reports 2, Article number: 521 (2012). Check out Thoughty2’s popular and rightfully scathing overview below. It was reassuring though to see some under 35s at a recent Pokey LaFarge show, Pokey himself…
“Cultural appropriation”: authoritarianism leavened by philistinism
Well put by George Will in The Washington Post (I’ve said as much in a forthcoming review article (extracts #1 and #2) and earlier (extract #3)) — see also Daryl Hall’s thoughts on the matter. The logic of this reactionary fundamentalism would mean that the biggest and most effective cultural magpie of them all — David Bowie…
Culture, Fate, and Public Policy
The always astute and nuanced John McWhorter’s take on Vance’s Hillbilly Elergy which I’m now ready to dive into having recently spend some time (albeit briefly) in Appalachian country. Hillbilly Elegy throws down a gauntlet to those who shape opinion on inequality and race in this country. Any reader must ask, “If Vance makes sense…
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