Cultural Normativity: Between Philosophical Apriority and Social Practices

ISBN-13: 9783631669525 / Twarda / 2017 / 234 str.

Rychard, Andrzej

Opis

This book presents the diverse profiles of cultural normativity: from philosophical theses, which systematise various definitions of normativity, the characteristics of cultural normativity and its relationships with ethics, to analyses of selected examples of social practices.

Spis treści

Values and norms - Axiology - Cultural origin of norms - Normative levels of culture - Normative criticism - Tradition vs. prospective creativity - Cultural normalisation of nature - Normalisation of social space - Cultural relativism - Constructivism - Normative aspects of the discourse concerning minorities

O autorze

Maria Golebiewska is Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The fields of her research are contemporary philosophy (phenomenology, philosophy of existence, structuralism and post-structuralism) and the modern sources of contemporary philosophy (epistemology, philosophy of language).