 | Serge Latouche - Economic development - 1993 - 276 pages
...societe? According to Castoriadis, each society furnishes its own 'construction' of the world, indeed creates its own world in the sense that it invests...signification. Each society establishes a mode of existence, a distinctive way of understanding itself, its activity, its history and the world it inhabits, specific... | |
 | Michael Thompson - History - 2003 - 204 pages
...difficulty. Culture counts. Each society, it has been pointed out by more than one social anthropologist, establishes a mode of existence, a distinct way of...its history, and the world it inhabits, specific to it and all-embracing in its compass. Although variously defined, however, "culture" embraces the symbols,... | |
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Latouche's argument that each society furnishes its own 'construction' of the world, creates its own world in the sense that it invests 'what is' with its distinctive signification. Each society establishes a mode of existence: a distinct way of understanding... 