January 2008

Horst BaierPages 7-27DOI: 10.5840/cultura20085112 ABSTRACT “Analytical construct. The Culture as construct and the constitution of the social – fallowing Max Weber”. The key of this paper is the chalange to determinate the place of the cultural sociology in the context of the general sociology and of the other cultural sciences, like cultural anthropology and ethnology. […]

Dan ChiţoiuPages 28-39DOI: 10.5840/cultura20085113 ABSTRACT This article discuss the origin of the Byzantine Cultural Model, influenced by the patristic anthropologic perspective, which discerns that present-day man is not generic man, but is at an intermediate stage, between a lost condition and one that could be attained. A dimension of the Eastern Christian understanding of man

Tomiţă CiuleiPages 40-59DOI: 10.5840/cultura20085114 ABSTRACT This paper bases on a (great!) wrongful act which was made to Greek philosophy, and especially to the pre-Socratic one: the unilateral abatement of the studies to those of cosmological nature. The big mutation would take place in Socrates’ time, who by the anthropology of the discourse takes philosophy to

Kazimierz MrówkaPages 60-70DOI: 10.5840/cultura20085115 ABSTRACT “The concept of Logos at Heraclitus. The analyze of B1 fragment”. “Logos” is the most important word in the Heraclitus’ philosophy. One can tell, that Heraclitus is the philosopher of logos. The way of interpretation of this notion influences the comprehention of all work of the Greek thinker. The word

Magdalena IorgaPages 80-85DOI: 10.5840/cultura20085117 ABSTRACT The nowadays academic teacher’s activity is split between teaching activity, scientific research concern and institutional goals. As it appears in the studies focusing on academic problems that the teacher’s orientation is going to be rather personal and professional than academic. The new generation of academic staff is trying to mix

Vlad IchimPages 73-79DOI: 10.5840/cultura20085116 ABSTRACT This study deals with the issue of Plato’s political interest. Some say he had none. We’ll try to show that in fact he was very political, to the extent that the core of his work is a political agenda, and is politically orientated. There’s also the aspect of the relation

Nicolae RambuOrcid-IDPages 86-106DOI: 10.5840/cultura20085118 ABSTRACT During the Nazi regime, Immanuel Kant was the most studied German philosopher. The most important in this context is the theory of the genius and of the creation of the genius that is developed especially in the Critique of Judgement. Kant defines the genius as the natural capacity of the

Daniel UngureanuPages 107-119DOI: 10.5840/cultura20085119 ABSTRACT “From Paideuma to Shari’a”. Paideuma, concept developed by Leo Frobenius at the beginning of the XXth century, seems to regain its proper actuality when we try to understand the Islamic civilization. Among the roots which define a paideuma, in the particular case of Islam we identified the shari’a as being

Simona MitroiuPages 123-129DOI: 10.5840/cultura20085120 ABSTRACT The culture defines some of the elements that we consider identity guide marks. The continuity of the identity is very closely bonded to these cultural elements. The understanding of the modality to represent the identity is possible through the analysis of some of these cultural elements and of the correlations

Radu I. PetrescuPages 130-141DOI: 10.5840/cultura20085121 ABSTRACT ”The Barometer of Flaubert or Literature and Reality”. Discussing the relationship between literature and reality, this study focuses on the analysis of the “reality effect” (effet de réel) which is applied to the narrative technique in Gogol’s novel Dead Souls by revisiting it through a Nabokovian perspective.