Culture does not only mean art society, Rilke poems, string quartet and an evening of chess. Culture is also and even more so criminality, xenophobia, civil wars, fundamentalism; all measurable symptoms of adjustment difficulties. These are based on stress and on inability to cooperate experienced by the participants. Culture is, according to Muhlmann's socio-biological thesis, the result of the combination of stress and an ability to cooperate. Advanced Western civilizations are a result of a maximal stress cooperation (MCS), leading, of course, to a conception of culture, that can hardly be called intellectual any longer. Springer Verlag's new book series opens on a triumphant note. It presents a powerful thesis, a clear and transparent language, all within 150 pages, and a pressing topic (Sudwestfunk). The author has been awarded by the International Institute for Advanced Studies in System Research and Cybernetics and Systems Research Foundation for authoring an excellent book, which has been nominated and selected for the 1997 IIAS-Book Award.
- ISBN10 3211828001
- ISBN13 9783211828007
- Publish Date May 1996
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 2 June 2021
- Publish Country AT
- Imprint Springer Verlag GmbH
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 141
- Language English