A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Monday, June 26, 2017

CULTURE'S RELATION TO HISTORY

Marshall Sahlins, Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa (Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 2004, 2013) ("The claim is not that culture determines history, only that it organizes it." Id. at 11. "The past is not a foreign country. It is relationships among countries." Id. at 103.).