Meaning in Action: Outline of an Integral Theory of Culture

by Rein Raud

Book Overview

In this important new book Rein Raud develops an original theory of culture understood as a loose and internally contradictory system of texts and practices that are shared by intermittent groups of people and used by them to make sense of their life-worlds. This theory views culture simultaneously in two ways: as a world of texts, tangible and shareable products of signifying acts, and as a space of practices, repeatable activities that produce,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509511245
• ISBN13: 9781509511242
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.1"