The Theory of Culture

A highly innovative and important formulation of a rational theory of culture based upon a study of the relationship between thought and language. This new theory provides a description of culture as an indivisible and dynamic totality that can be rationally and objectively analyzed, provided each of its elements is constantly seen as a function of the whole.

Professor Tschumi investigates some of the apparently insoluble problems inherent in a rational concept of culture, such as creative freedom, objectivity, and the element of unpredictability. Through the adoption of this novel approach, the great variety of descriptive and expressive languages—and especially their manifestations in the exact sciences, the arts, literature, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, the social sciences, and in the corresponding metalanguages—can be reduced to a single perspective of the unity of the culture.