Culture The Story of Us, from Cave Art to K-Pop
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Norton
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
06.02.2024
Abbildungen
8 pages of full-color illustrations; 30 black-and-white illustrations
Verlag
NortonSeitenzahl
400
Maße (L/B/H)
20,7/13,6/2,5 cm
Gewicht
318 g
Farbe
Karamell / Anthrazit
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-324-07450-2
What good are the arts? Why should we care about the past? For millennia, humanity has sought to understand and transmit to future generations not just the "know-how" of life, but the "know-why"-the meaning and purpose of our existence, as expressed in art, architecture, religion, and philosophy. This crucial passing down of knowledge has required the radical integration of insights from the past and from other cultures. In Culture, acclaimed author, professor, and public intellectual Martin Puchner takes us on a breakneck tour through pivotal moments in world history, providing a global introduction to the arts and humanities in one engaging volume.
From Nefertiti's lost city to the plays of Wole Soyinka; from the theaters of ancient Greece to Chinese travel journals to Arab and Aztec libraries; from a South Asian statuette found at Pompeii to a time capsule left behind on the Moon, Puchner tells the gripping story of human achievement through our collective losses and rediscoveries, power plays and heroic journeys, innovations, imitations, and appropriations. More than a work of history, Culture is an archive of humanity's most monumental junctures and a guidebook for the future of us humans as a creative species. Witty, erudite, and full of wonder, Puchner argues that the humanities are (and always have been) essential to the transmission of knowledge that drives the efforts of human civilization.
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From the Chauvet cave to K-pop.
Culture – the common heritage of humanity. How did culture evolve, how is it transformed and passed on to the generations to come? Martin Puchners book is a manifesto for cultural diversity, seeing it as a huge recycling project, in the best sense of the word. Encounters with foreign cultures or cultures of the distant past can lead to new cultural forms and innovations. No society, no nation can actually own culture, it is all about sharing, transforming and adapting. An important topic today is cultural appropriation, this is a point the author only mentions incidentally. Nevertheless, this book is great to read, very informative. (See also: Puchner, The Written World)
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