Culture: Beacon Of The Future (praeger Studies On The 21st Century,) [Paperback]

Culture is essential to everything we do and is going to play a very significant role in the world of the future. In spite of this, most of us have only a hazy understanding of culture and do not realize how it will affect individual, institutional, community, national, and international affairs. This volume delves into the domain of cultureboth as a concept and as a realityand proposes a formulation of the world system of the future according to culture's highest and most enduring principles. The author draws on many disciplinesanthropology, sociology, philosophy, cosmology, history, economics, and the artsto make his case that culture and cultures should be accorded a central position in global development and human affairs in the future.D. PAUL SCHAFER is Director of the World Culture Project, based in Markham, Canada./e He has taught Cultural Policy at York University and Arts Administration and Policy at the University of Toronto.

Preface
The Centrality of Culture
Culture as a Concept
The Character of Culture
Culture as a Reality
The Cultural Interpretation of History
The Cultural Personality
Community Cultural Development
The Cultural State
International Cultural Relations
The Art of Cultural Development and Policy
Towards a Cultural Age
Notes
Some Readings
Index