Exploring Reality: Cultural Studies & Critical Thinking

Autor/in	Smith, Paul
Institution	Association of American Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC
Titel	Exploring Reality: Cultural Studies & Critical Thinking
Quelle	In: Liberal Education, 90 (2004) 3, S.26-31 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0024-1822
Schlagwörter	Ethnic Studies; Cultural Awareness; College Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Collegestudent
Abstract	Americans seem to be living in a moment in the United States when there?s some profit to be had from casting cultural beliefs, values, and knowledges into strictly oppositional frames. So, even though the author believes we are all right now suffering from some dire consequences of that habit, to begin, almost in mimicry, to address the issue of cultural analysis by way of a kind of Manichean scenario. On the one hand, there are some people out there who still believe that we can have access to some fundamental and obvious reality, an empirical natural world that is theoretically open to our unmediated knowledge if only we persevere long enough. But, they believe, the essential clarity of such a reality is then muddied and confused by all the things that we humans do, socially and culturally. For some of them, the core reality even includes a human nature,too, one that would shine through all the varieties and differences wrought by human cultures, upbringings, histories. (Author).
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