Culture

Culture has been understood as a flux of phenomenon that has presuppositions and foundations from their hunter-gathering and nomadic traditions to cultivation. And now those of historical relevances of human engagement for alternatives reveal a connotation, viz. a phenomenological paradigm of social realty or of a syntagm of human scarcities. Whether this relationship...

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Totem and Taboo
Critical Path
Economy and Society
Reason and Revolution
Social Evolution
Whoever you are
The Science of Power
Principles of Western Civilisation
One-dimensional man
Continuities in cultural evolution

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The Contemporary Jewish Museum
Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History
Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities
National Museum of the American Indian
Smithsonian Institution
National Postal Museum
Getty Villa
Museum of the Cultural Foundation of the Greek Diaspora

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Institut Néerlandais
Ismar Elbogen Network for Jewish Cultural History

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Journal of Popular Culture

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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium.
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio -- empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how -- has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades. Here at home -- within the family, so to speak -- our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others.
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

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Totem and Taboo

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Reason and Revolution

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Whoever you are

The Science of Power

Principles of Western Civilisation

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Continuities in cultural evolution

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