Images of Community

Résumé du livre

This study began in opposition to the predominance of notions of wording in the study of human culture and society. The analyses begin from the influential figures in the qualitative relationships between epistemology, aesthetics and society (such as Plato, Michelangelo, Kant, David, Durkheim, Manet and Lyotard) rather than the more usual quantitative applications of complexity/chaos theory whose influential figures are often mathematicians. The authors argue that much writing that currently passes for, to use a catch-all, postmodern critical theory (that claims heterogeneity and plurality as its truth) is both uncritical and homogeneous rather than heterogeneous. As such it represses both difference and our understanding of the social processes of differentiation.