1st Edition

Cultural Interactions Conflict and Cooperation

By Frans-Willem Korsten Copyright 2022
190 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

The common saying is that people have a culture. This book argues that people live a culture – which may explain why they are so affectively attached to it. By considering cultural interactions on a global scale, this book investigates how cultures can be understood in terms of conflict and cooperation, in relation to the nation-state, a multiplicity of worlds, society, civilization and community.... Read more
Acknowledgments, Preamble: On a Musical Note, Part 1 Cultural Realms, Part 2 Cultural Selves, Postscript: On a Note of Justice, Bibliography, Index of terms, Index of names

Biography

Frans-Willem Korsten holds the chair by special appointment in Literature and Society at the Erasmus School of Philosophy and is associate professor at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). At AUP he published 'A Dutch Republican Baroque: Theatricality, Dramatization, Moment and Event' (2017) and his latest publication is 'Art as an Interface of Law and Justice: Affirmation, Disturbance, Disruption' (Bloomsbury, 2021).