category, the national culture. According to this theory, and based on the assumption that national cultural values determine … which pretends to provide quot;easyquot; answers for a complex world. In this article, a new approach to culture is … introduced according to which culture is seen as a permanent individual process. The focus will be on the individual in its …

This chapter begins by noting that culture as an element in economic development in the Third World has been largely … neglected in traditional development economics, most writers either seeing culture as an obstacle to development or ignoring it … altogether. Recently a shift in thinking has occurred whereby culture is now more widely seen as being more central to the …

most important 20th-century theorists of radical democracy. We outline Castoriadis's thoughts on autonomy, the social …-historical nature of Being, and creation-key elements that inform his model of democratic culture. We then develop a Castoriadian … critique of culture produced by capitalist institutions. By also drawing on the political economic thought of Thorstein Veblen …