A Philosophical Defense of Culture

A Philosophical Defense of CultureDraws on two different but strikingly similar streams in our world tradition to argue for the contemporary philosophical relevance of "culture." In A Philosophical Defense of Culture, Shuchen Xiang draws on the Confucian philosophy of "culture" and Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms to argue for the importance of "culture" as a philosophic paradigm. A defining ideal of Confucian Chinese civilization, culture (wen) spans everything from

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