Dilthey's Dream : Essays on Human Nature and Culture.

By:

Freeman, Derek

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781922144812

Subject(s):

Human behavior

Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dilthey's DreamDDC classification:

LOC classification:

BF199.F744 2017

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Contents:

Intro -- Foreword -- Human Nature and Culture -- The Anthropology of Choice -- Paradigms in Collision -- 'The Question of Questions' -- In Praise of Heresy -- Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa and Boasian Culturism -- References.

Summary: Derek Freeman takes the reader on an intellectual journey through the complexities of philosophical anthropology. Even while the controversial Nature-Nurture debate raged, Freeman contended that the crucial fact that humans had the capacity to make choices was 'both intrinsic to our biology and basic to the very formation of cultures'.

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Derek Freeman takes the reader on an intellectual journey through the complexities of philosophical anthropology. Even while the controversial Nature-Nurture debate raged, Freeman contended that the crucial fact that humans had the capacity to make choices was 'both intrinsic to our biology and basic to the very formation of cultures'.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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