Who Owns Culture: A New World History - Martin Puchner | Intelligence Squared

In an age where the line between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation seems ever more blurred, can anyone actually own a culture? In April 2023, acclaimed author and public intellectual Martin Puchner joined Intelligence Squared to talk about the themes of his new book Culture: A New World History, where he shows us that the history of mankind has always been a story of borrowing from one another and that this is something to be celebrated, not lamented. It was, after all, Persian polymath Ibn Sina who translated and preserved the Greek philosophy that was later rediscovered in the European Renaissance. The idea of ownership implicit in debates about cultural appropriation, he argues, presents an insular tale about how culture evolves — flattening out the complicated textures of human history and, in the end, what truly makes us us.

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