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A New Science of Representation - Towards an Integrated Theory of Representation in Science, Politics and Art (Hardcover)
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A New Science of Representation - Towards an Integrated Theory of Representation in Science, Politics and Art (Hardcover)
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The astonishing aim of this bold and original study is no less than
the construction of a comprehensive theory of culture-a theory that
challenges many established approaches in disciplines such as
philosophy, semiotics, sociology, political theory, aesthetics, and
history itself. Building on the thesis that crucial changes in
human cultural history correlate with fundamental transformations
in modes of representation, Redner traces human development from
primitive culture to that of the present age. He defines four modes
of representation to account for the epochal stages in cultural
history: fetishistic (primitive culture), iconic (early
civilization), mimetic (the so-called Axial cultures), and
representationalist (modernity from the Reformation to the
present). Although there is much that is both enlightening and
provocative about the cultural past here, it is our present age
that most interests Redner. He argues that its fundamental mode,
representationalism mediated by electronics, is still essentially
modernist. Thus Redner denies that our culture can meaningfully be
called postmodern. In the tradition of Vico, Comte, Weber, Norbert
Elias, and Charles E. Lindblom, A New Science of Representation is
a major statement by an original thinker on both the nature of
cultural development and the interpretation of our confused
present.
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