To end the year with a positive note: All this might make you wonder: Does it even make sense to have a single word, “culture,” with such divergent uses?(...) It’s possible to imagine a more rational system, in which one word describes the activities of artistic and intellectual life, another our group identity, and a third our implicit norms and ways of living. Those terms, whatever they might be, would be narrower and simpler—but they’d also be less accurate. They would obscure the overlap between life, art, and politics. (...) “Culture” may be pulling itself apart from the inside, but it represents, in its way, a wish. The wish is that a group of people might discover, together, a good way of life; that their good way of life might express itself in their habits, institutions, and activities; and that those, in turn, might help individuals flourish in their own ways.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 22:13:37 +0000
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