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These short pieces reveal new ways of belonging in the world and possibilities for an art grounded in a 'localized' cosmopolitan culture.âThese days, we do not lack information about other societies and countriesâ writes Eva Hoffman, in her introduction to this illuminating collection of essays. But why, we must ask, does this unprececedented level of knowledge not translate into greater! understanding?
Spurning the sound byte, glossy guide or shallow schematic, an international group of thinkers and writers set out on a much more vital journey leading us through the Innner Lives of Cultures. In these 10 revealing essays about Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Romania, Russia and Uzbekistan, we enter, through empathy and imagination âinto the subjective life of another culture â" its symbolic codes, its overt beliefs and implicit assumptionsâ.
Often, they suggest, it is the experience of emmigration or displacment which is the key: it reveals most sharply to us not only how culture shapes our human enviroment but also the inner landscapes of the self which perceives it.
In an opening essay, âBarbarism, Civilisation, Culturesâ, Tzvetan Todorov, argues forcefully that without this much-prized knowledge of what âcultureâ is, we may increasingly fail to become what he calls âa civilised person: one! who is able, at all times and in all places, to recognise the! humanit y of others fullyâ. This is an urgent and indispensible book for our world now.
âThese days, we do not lack information about other societies and countriesâ writes Eva Hoffman, in her introduction to this illuminating collection of essays. But why, we must ask, does this unprececedented level of knowledge not translate into greater understanding?
Spurning the sound byte, glossy guide or shallow schematic, an international group of thinkers and writers set out on a much more vital journey leading us through the Innner Lives of Cultures. In these 10 revealing essays about Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Romania, Russia and Uzbekistan, we enter, through empathy and imagination âinto the subjective life of another culture â" its symbolic codes, its overt beliefs and implicit assumptionsâ.
Often, they suggest, it is the experience of emmigration or displacment which is the key: it reveals most sharply to us not only how! culture shapes our human enviroment but also the inner landscapes of the self which perceives it.
In an opening essay, âBarbarism, Civilisation, Culturesâ, Tzvetan Todorov, argues forcefully that without this much-prized knowledge of what âcultureâ is, we may increasingly fail to become what he calls âa civilised person: one who is able, at all times and in all places, to recognise the humanity of others fullyâ. This is an urgent and indispensible book for our world now.
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