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Publication details [#8856]
Shweder, Richard A. 1984. Anthropology's romantic rebellion against the enlightenment, or there's more to thinking than reason and evidence. In Shweder, Richard A. and Robert A. LeVine, eds. Culture theory: Essays on mind, self and emotion. Cambridge University Press. pp. 27–66.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Person as a subject
Annotation
A historical account of the tension between enlightenment and romanticism views of mind as a creative force in cognitive studies. Various views of language (including Chomsky's, Searle's, and Whorf's) are discussed along the dimensions of rational-irrational-nonrational types of mental processes and universalism-developmentalism-relativism.