Cultural Reader

Clifford Geertz ’s interpretive anthropology revolutionized the study of culture by treating it as a system of meaning rather than a set of ...

Jean Baudrillard’s  The System of Objects  (1968) is a foundational work in his critique of consumer society. In it, he argues that modern o...

There is hardly an introduction to philosophy that doesn't begin with Aristotle. At times, it seems he doesn't merely represent the ...

Clifford Geertz’s interpretive theory of culture reshaped anthropology by emphasizing meaning over structure, interpretation over scientifi...

Anthropology has long grappled with the question of what drives human culture . Two of the most influential yet opposing theories in the fie...

Adam Przeworski, one of the most influential political scientists, addresses a fundamental paradox of democracy in his book Democracy and th...

Jean Baudrillard ’s concept of the implosion of meaning describes a paradox of modern media and communication: as information increases exp...