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Philosophy of Culture as Theory, Method, and Way of Life
Contemporary Reflections and Applications
Series: - Philosophy as a Way of Life, Volume: 2
The âideaâ of culture comprises almost all human activities, from science to art, from music to microscopy. Does anything important escape the limits of this idea? The authors of this collection argue that all philosophy is really the philosophy of culture, since in some way each and every discipline and subdiscipline is foremost a manifestation of our collective cultural effort. Further, they argue that by engaging with philosophy as a cultural activity and as a discipline to meaningful engage with all dimensions of (inter)cultural life, we can live more meaningful, flourishing, and wisely guided lives.
Dr. PrzemysÅaw Bursztyka is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw, where he holds the position of the Acting Chair of the Department of Philosophy of Culture. His main interests include: philosophy of culture (and its relation to other cultural disciplines), philosophical psychology, philosophical anthropology (especially apophatic anthropology) and philosophy of subjectivity, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, existentialism, hermeneutics. He is a founder and the editor-in-chief of the philosophical quarterly Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture.
Dr. Eli Kramer is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Ethics of the Institute of Philosophy, University WrocÅaw, Poland. He is co-editor of Brillâs book series Philosophy as a Way of Life: Text and Studies. His first single-authored monograph is on the nature and role of the associated philosophical life: Intercultural Modes of Philosophy, Volume One: Principles to Guide Philosophical Community (Brill, 2021). He has also co-edited and contributed to collections such as Rorty and Beyond (Lexington Books, 2019) and Contemporary Philosophical Proposals for the University (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
Dr. Marcin Rychter is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy of Culture at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw. He is a philosopher, translator, and editor. He is co-editor and co-author of the book MiÄdzy integracjÄ a rozproszeniem. DoÅwiadczenie estetyczne w kontekstach nowoczesnoÅci (Warszawa, 2018). His main fields of interest include: Philosophy of Music, Philosophy of Literature, Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy of Culture, Contemporary Non-analytical Metaphysics, Contemporary American Prose. He is a Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture.
Dr. Randall Auxier is Professor of Philosophy and Communication Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is author, co-author, editor, and co-editor of over twenty books in philosophy, and also of many articles and book chapters. He combines the philosophy of culture with the philosophy of popular culture in an effort to show the general development of culture and its excrescences, such as "civilization."
Dr. Eli Kramer is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Ethics of the Institute of Philosophy, University WrocÅaw, Poland. He is co-editor of Brillâs book series Philosophy as a Way of Life: Text and Studies. His first single-authored monograph is on the nature and role of the associated philosophical life: Intercultural Modes of Philosophy, Volume One: Principles to Guide Philosophical Community (Brill, 2021). He has also co-edited and contributed to collections such as Rorty and Beyond (Lexington Books, 2019) and Contemporary Philosophical Proposals for the University (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
Dr. Marcin Rychter is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy of Culture at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw. He is a philosopher, translator, and editor. He is co-editor and co-author of the book MiÄdzy integracjÄ a rozproszeniem. DoÅwiadczenie estetyczne w kontekstach nowoczesnoÅci (Warszawa, 2018). His main fields of interest include: Philosophy of Music, Philosophy of Literature, Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy of Culture, Contemporary Non-analytical Metaphysics, Contemporary American Prose. He is a Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture.
Dr. Randall Auxier is Professor of Philosophy and Communication Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is author, co-author, editor, and co-editor of over twenty books in philosophy, and also of many articles and book chapters. He combines the philosophy of culture with the philosophy of popular culture in an effort to show the general development of culture and its excrescences, such as "civilization."
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Philosophy of Culture and Humane-ization
âPrzemysÅaw Bursztyka, Eli Kramer, and Marcin Rychter
1 Toward a âCultural Philosophyâ: Five Forms of Philosophy of Culture
âJared Kemling
2 Culture and Philosophy
âRobert Cummings Neville
3 Toward an Apophatic Philosophy of Culture
âPrzemysÅaw Bursztyka
4 Why Do We Need an Ontology of Culture?
âMarcin Rychter
5 The Field of Aesthetics as the Field of Culture: Reflections on French Postphenomenology and the Community of Feeling
âMonika Murawska
6 Max Schelerâs Two Approaches to Philosophy of Culture
âKenneth W. Stikkers
7 Politics and the Rule of Law in the Context of the Philosophy of Culture: The Battle of Purpose against Teleology
âRandall Auxier
8 Notes toward a Pragmatist Metaphilosophy
âJoseph Margolis
9 Humanism and Philosophy as a Way of Life
âMatthew Sharpe
10 The Virtues of Philosophy of Culture: Symbolizing Cassirer as a Renaissance Sage
âEli Kramer
11 Philosophy as Eco-Systematic Way of Life: Paradox as a Spiritual Exercise and Philosophic Parrhesia as Cross-Cultural Virtue
âAndrew B. Irvine
12 Education, Philosophy, and Morality: Virtue Philosophy in Kant
âLaura Mueller
13 From a Metaphysics to a Metanoia of Enculturation: Some Usual and Unusual Suspects
âLucio Angelo Privitello
14 Culture and Science â Science in Culture: A Relational Approach to the Cultural Connectedness of Science
âGary L. Herstein
15 Richard Rortyâs Cultural Politics and Public Philosophy on the Internet
âKrzysztof Piotr SkowroÅski
16 How the Arts Reorient Experience and Recontextualize the World
âRudolf A. Makkreel
17 Adoption in the Cultural Orphanages as an Ethics of the Passerby
âMyron Moses Jackson
18 Progress and Reversions: Movement in the Hermeneutic Circle of Culture
âZofia RosiÅska
Index
Introduction: Philosophy of Culture and Humane-ization
âPrzemysÅaw Bursztyka, Eli Kramer, and Marcin Rychter
Section 1: Philosophy of Culture as Theory and Method
1 Toward a âCultural Philosophyâ: Five Forms of Philosophy of Culture
âJared Kemling
2 Culture and Philosophy
âRobert Cummings Neville
3 Toward an Apophatic Philosophy of Culture
âPrzemysÅaw Bursztyka
4 Why Do We Need an Ontology of Culture?
âMarcin Rychter
5 The Field of Aesthetics as the Field of Culture: Reflections on French Postphenomenology and the Community of Feeling
âMonika Murawska
6 Max Schelerâs Two Approaches to Philosophy of Culture
âKenneth W. Stikkers
7 Politics and the Rule of Law in the Context of the Philosophy of Culture: The Battle of Purpose against Teleology
âRandall Auxier
8 Notes toward a Pragmatist Metaphilosophy
âJoseph Margolis
Section 2: Philosophy of Culture as a Way of Life
9 Humanism and Philosophy as a Way of Life
âMatthew Sharpe
10 The Virtues of Philosophy of Culture: Symbolizing Cassirer as a Renaissance Sage
âEli Kramer
11 Philosophy as Eco-Systematic Way of Life: Paradox as a Spiritual Exercise and Philosophic Parrhesia as Cross-Cultural Virtue
âAndrew B. Irvine
12 Education, Philosophy, and Morality: Virtue Philosophy in Kant
âLaura Mueller
13 From a Metaphysics to a Metanoia of Enculturation: Some Usual and Unusual Suspects
âLucio Angelo Privitello
Section 3: Applications of Philosophy of Culture
14 Culture and Science â Science in Culture: A Relational Approach to the Cultural Connectedness of Science
âGary L. Herstein
15 Richard Rortyâs Cultural Politics and Public Philosophy on the Internet
âKrzysztof Piotr SkowroÅski
16 How the Arts Reorient Experience and Recontextualize the World
âRudolf A. Makkreel
17 Adoption in the Cultural Orphanages as an Ethics of the Passerby
âMyron Moses Jackson
18 Progress and Reversions: Movement in the Hermeneutic Circle of Culture
âZofia RosiÅska
Index
This book is for students, researchers, and specialists in philosophy and the social sciences, especially anthropology, sociology, and communication studies. We treat culture as a primary object of study.