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Originally published as:

Florian Znanieck. Cultural Reality. Chicago: University of Chicago (1919).

Cultural Reality

Table of Contents

Florian Znaniecki

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Preface

I. CULTURALISM

• The realistic and idealistic views of the world
• The thesis of culturalism

II. EXPERIENCE AND REFLECTION

• The elementary empirical forms of experience
• Actuality from the standpoint of the empirical analysis of experience
• Actuality from the standpoint of the act of reflection
• Synthesis of the two definitions of actuality
• Actuality and personality
  

III. THE CONCRETE, EMPIRICAL OBJECT AND HISTORICAL REALITY

• The method
• The content
• The connection
• The concrete historical object
• The extension of historical objects
• The duration of historical objects
• Existence and reality

IV. THE PRACTICAL ORGANIZATION OF REALITY

• The method
• The system of objects in the course of its actual construction
• The situation
• The scheme
• The practical dogma and the system of schemes

V. THE THEORETIC ORDERS OF REALITY

• The general features of theoretic rationalization
• The physical order
• The psychological order
• The sociological order
• The ideal order of reality
• The problem of the unity of knowledge
• The instrumental role of science

VI. THE PROBLEM OF APPRECIATION

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