Meaning in Action : Outline of an Integral Theory of Culture (Paperback)

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 internalisation of meaning
Claims and bids
Summary
3 Culture as textuality
Base-texts and result-texts
The operational memory
Organisation 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 13th 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