ABSTRACT This article investigates the concept of culture as it has functioned in the discourse of crisis across the social sciences and humanities. As part and parcel of contemporary globality’s restructuring, culture as an ontological and ideational entity continues to structure the syntax of worldly antagonism even as its precise definition is ever expansive and elusive and without geographical centre. By canvassing the varying work of theorists from Matthew Arnold and W.E.B. Du Bois to Raymond Williams and Homi Bhabha, this discussion attempts to bridge several appropriations of culture in order to submit a rereading of culture’s textuality at the intersection of interdisciplinarity and the lineaments of conflict. It then traces this genealogy up to today’s deployment of culture, which rests on a discourse of tolerance that, as Wendy Brown has shown, allows for power and violence to materialise within a framework of liberal democratic pluralism.

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宽容时代的文化与危机

摘要本文研究了文化概念，因为它已在整个社会科学和人文科学的危机讨论中发挥作用。作为当代全球化重组的重要组成部分，文化作为本体论和观念实体继续建构世俗对抗的语法，尽管其精确定义是广阔而难以捉摸的，而且没有地理中心。通过讨论从Matthew Arnold和WEB Du Bois到Raymond Williams和Homi Bhabha的理论家的各种著作，该讨论试图弥合文化的几种占有，以便在跨学科和冲突的交集处提出对文化文本性的重新解读。然后将这种谱系追溯到今天的文化发展，其基础是宽容的话语，