Broad, but multiple abstractions may not help to illuminate concepts – it becomes necessary to whittle eclectic definitions and examples down. Noting this tendency, Geertz remarks, is not attempting to undermine these ideas, but to insure its continued importance. Langer’s notion of the “grand idée”, which emerges into being and dominates other philosophies, but it familiarizes, and becomes taken for granted, and regulates the use of the idea to key applications, instead of a breadth of them. “Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture.” The Interpretation of Culture: Selected Essays.
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