Western Culture Politics and Management

Contents: Preface. 1. Thresholds of western culture: identity, postcoloniality, transnationalism. 2. The metaphorics of nature culture dualism in western and Basque models of self. 3. Western influence in bollywood. 4. Strategies of upward influence: a study of six culture from Europe, Asia and America. 5. Between and within culture variations of cultural value orientations. 6. Western culture and the hypothesis of God. 7. Roots of western culture: prehistoric cave paintings, classical Greece and the Gothic middle ages. 8. Feeling history: reflections on the western culture controversy. 9. Beyond culture: space, identity, and the politics of difference. 10. The myth of romantic love in western culture: its recent portrayal in American popular cinema. 11. Western culture, the Holocaust, and the persistence of Antisemitism. 12. Dignity versus liberty: western cultures of free speech. 13. Tangible and intangible values of cultural property in western tradition and science. Bibliography.

Western culture began in Ancient Greece. There and in the Roman civilization it developed until the start of the middle ages when it largely vanished from Europe. During the middle ages, western culture resided, instead, in the Arab Persian world to a modest degree. Researchers who study the effects of western culture politics and management have used most of the technique discussed in this book.