Cultural Interactions

Frans-Willem Korsten holds the chair by special appointment in Literature and Society at the Erasmus School of Philosophy and is associate professor at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). At AUP he published 'A Dutch Republican Baroque: Theatricality, Dramatization, Moment and Event' (2017) and his latest publication is 'Art as an Interface of Law and Justice: Affirmation, Disturbance, Disruption' (Bloomsbury, 2021).

• Acknowledgments Preamble: On a Musical Note Part 1 Cultural Realms1. Culture in Terms of Representation and as Form-of-life 1.1. In what senses is culture a matter of life and death? 1.2. What is the definition of culture? 2. Culture and Politics: The Paradox of Self-Determination and the Nation-state 2.1. Self-determination: Self-evident or a paradox? 2.2. Why is the nation-state culturally determined? 3. Culture and the Political: A Multiplicity of Worlds 3.1. What is the connection between culture and world? 3.2. How does culture connote a multiplicity of worlds? 4. Culture and Economies: Society 4.1. Society: How is value determined economically and culturally? 4.2. How are economies determined by culture and can culture be used economically? 5. Culture and Affective Economies: Civilization 5.1. Civilization: How are cultural hierarchies always affectively charged? 5.2. How are the interests of people defined by affects and emotions? 6. Culture and Religion: Community 6.1. What is the relation between culture, religion, and com¬munities? 6.2. How can separate domains of life infiltrate one another? Part 2 Cultural Selves7. Culture and Self: Individuality 7.1. Why do people want to lose their selves, or sacrifice them¬selves? 7.2. How can people become alienated from their culture? 8. Culture and ‘Other’: Affiliation 8.1. Why do cultures construct an ‘other’ and what are the consequences? 8.2. How are selves defined in intensified urban situations of cultural interactis? 9. Self and Other: In-comparability 9.1. Translation: What is needed to understand other cultures? 9.2. Does cross-cultural understanding have its limits? 10. Culture and Dis-abled Selves: Normality 10.1. How is disability historically and culturally determined? 10.2. What are the cultural affordances in disabilities? 11. Culture and Animal Selves: Relationality 11.1. How do tropes anthropomorphize animals, and animalize humans? 11.2. Do people have sufficient understanding of animal culture? 12. Culture and Machinic Selves: Artificiality 12.1. Mixtures of being: Have humans always been artificial? 12.2. What are the multiple relations between culture and technology? Postscript: On a Note of Justice Bibliography Index of terms Index of names