Kultura jako organismus, aneb pojetí kultury u Oswalda Spenglera a Alfreda Louise Kroebera

• Authors: Daniel Hájek

Title variants

EN

CULTURE AS ORGANISM OR CONCEPT OF CULTURE OF OSWALD SPENGLER AND ALFRED LOUIS KROEBER

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article compares the concepts of culture of German historian Oswald Spengler and American anthropologist Alfred Louis Kroeber. They both shared interest in comparative study of civilizations and some similar approaches to it, based on an assumption, that culture is a distinct level of reality. It means that it is nonreducible to its parts, but on the contrary it controls them. This conception is sometimes refered to as superorganic. Their motivations for adopting this peculiar conception vary and hence it carries some different implications for each of them. The concepts and methods that follow from it are analyzed in this work. The explicit comparison is made in the end of the work.

Keywords

EN

Theory; Culture; Oswald Spengler; Alfred Louis Kroeber

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Studia Ethnologica Pragensia
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 65-83

Contributors

author

Daniel Hájek

• Ústav etnologie a Ústav filozofie a religionistiky, Filozofická fakulta, Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Czech Republic