Culture and Practical Reason
In Culture and Practical Reason, Marshall Sahlins examines how culture influences the ways people understand needs, interests, value, and action. Challenging purely utilitarian explanations of human behavior, this influential work considers practical reason as something shaped by culturally meaningful systems.
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Culture and Practical Reason explores the relationship between culture and human action through the work of anthropologist Marshall Sahlins.
The book considers how people understand needs, interests, value, and purposeful behavior within culturally meaningful frameworks.
Sahlins questions explanations that reduce social life to practical calculation or material utility.
It offers a broad contribution to anthropological and social theory, centered on the role of culture in shaping reason and action.
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