Culture. A Philosophical Perspective
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This book attempts to grant a clear insight into the problem ofculture. Thinking about culture, we are faced with the inevitable,and apparently insuperable, problem of how to study culture in theabsence of a consensual definition of this notion. For several reasons,the anthropologists Claude Lévi-Strauss and Clifford Geertz providean ideal starting point for tackling this issue. Firstly, both graduated inphilosophy before turning to anthropology. Secondly, the linguisticmodel-based approach…
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This book attempts to grant a clear insight into the problem ofculture. Thinking about culture, we are faced with the inevitable,and apparently insuperable, problem of how to study culture in theabsence of a consensual definition of this notion. For several reasons,the anthropologists Claude Lévi-Strauss and Clifford Geertz providean ideal starting point for tackling this issue. Firstly, both graduated inphilosophy before turning to anthropology. Secondly, the linguisticmodel-based approach they initiated is founded on the general beliefthat language is a feature which all men have in common. Andthirdly, when taken together, the conclusions reached by Lévi-Straussand Geertz, which contradict one another, yield a clear view on theconceptual complexity of culture.

