Meaning in Action: Outline of an Integral Theory of Culture

Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction
An outline of the theory and the book
1 Looking for culture, looking at things
	Social/cultural
	Cultural communities
	The cultural subject
	Summary
2 Meaning and signification
	The problem of reference
	Two kinds of concepts
	The internalization of meaning
	Claims and bids
	Summary
3 Culture as textuality
	Base-texts and result-texts
	The operational memory
	Organization of knowledge
	Standards and codes
	Summary
4 Culture as a network of practices
	The cultural role: functions and goals of a practice
	The social position: the carrier and status of a practice
	Materials and rules
	Cultural institutions
	Summary
5 Case study I: the metaphysics of love and the beginnings of Italian vernacular poetry
	Italian political landscape in the thirteenth century: the bidding space
	The poetic context
	The carriers of the practice
	The science of love as privileged knowledge
	Vulgare, the medium
	Institutions and textuality
	Summary
6 Case study II: art and politics in Eastern Europe in the 1990s
	The institutions
	The carriers
	Textuality, codes and languages
	Summary
7 Concluding remarks
	A few final words
References
Index
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