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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Culture is extraordinary. Let us begin from this statement. Culture I shall argue here is not a state of affairs not a mode or manner of living; rather ‘culture’ names an event in which the ordinary-a manner of living-discovers or reveals a foundation that is extraordinary and whose extraordinariness makes pos- sible a different manner of living. Culture can be defined as that event of perception-the root sense of ‘aesthetic’ (aisthanomai)-that calls a hu man subject to differ from itself and to find or to constitute its very identity precisely through the specific mode of that differing. It therefore names the possibility of a transformation a change in our ordinariness that is occasioned by aesthetics or art. The name that we give to that change is his tory: our historical becoming and our becoming historical. (LL)