Is There a Genealogy of Cultures?(Critical Essay) From: Criticism | Date: September 22, 2000| Author: FALCO, RAPHAEL | COPYRIGHT 2000 Wayne State University Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

THE SHORT ANSWER TO THE QUESTION, "Is there a genealogy of cultures?" is "sometimes." But the longer answer is considerably more complicated, and in fact forces us to qualify even the short answer of "sometimes." We can begin by saying that the notion of cultural descent with which we are familiar--specifically, that later intellectual cultures are the hereditary descendants of prior intellectual cultures--is an institution of the Renaissance. That this institution itself originate...

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