July 2008

Aida FarhatPages 7-12DOI: 10.5840/cultura2008521 ABSTRACT In this article, I will try to explain the meaning of the word zihâr, translated as oath of the back, trying only to situate it in its context and to bring an elucidation of the subject`s origin. The zihâr is a type of repudiation used by a husband against his […]

Costantino PaonessaPages 14-28DOI: 10.5840/cultura2008522 ABSTRACT The Islamic contestation of the last twenty years has in many aspects called into question the legitimacy of current juridical systems of supposedly Muslim Countries. Their adoption of another rationality of the law is today a well affirmed process but has left many consequences. In the article we will try

Guy TrollietPages 29-31DOI: 10.5840/cultura2008523 ABSTRACT In a world in which globalisation has opened the access to Muslim countries, Muslim community having been identified as a distinctive high potential market, the question if businesses and corporations should set up a „Department of Islamic affairs” became more than pertinent.

Daniel UngureanuPages 32-43DOI: 10.5840/cultura2008524 ABSTRACT Islamism is a form of political and religious utopia, created by the Arab-Muslim world, as an ideological alternative to the invasion of modern western doctrines: communism, socialism, liberalism, capitalism etc. This political and ideological current appears to some as a substitute for nationalism, which lost its appeal in many Muslim

Carmen CozmaPages 47-52DOI: 10.5840/cultura2008525 ABSTRACT The acute consciousness of the moral crisis we face today makes us to inquire after the philosophy’s opportunities in finding a viable way to overcome serious worries concerning life, world, and human being. We think that the ethical value of measure and the correlated principle of “golden mean” could enlighten,

David CornbergPages 53-64DOI: 10.5840/cultura2008526 ABSTRACT The continuing growth of semiotics signifies increased awareness of global communicative processes. Expansion of the communicative universe through semiotic research furthers the transformation of our contemporary experience. Semiotics thus provides a means to articulate transmodernity. We validate this assertion through semiotic analysis of an everyday object, by which we discover

Nicolae RâmbuOrcid-IDPages 65-79DOI: 10.5840/cultura2008527 ABSTRACT This paper is about Cervante’s hero, Don Quijote, who is not, axiological speaking, a comical character, as he was usually viewed, but a profound and tragic figure. He is the idealist who believes sincerely in the high values and ideals and fights for their accomplishment. Don Quijote is like a

Horia BádescuPages 83-88DOI: 10.5840/cultura2008528 ABSTRACT The lost celebration. To live the sacred, that means to admit its presence in the world and to celebrate this presence; respectively, to affirm the presence of its absolute value, of the Meaning, finally, in the horizon of harmony and joy, and to fill up ourselves by that. In nowadays,

Aleksandra PawliszynPages 89-98DOI: 10.5840/cultura2008529 ABSTRACT The subject of the paper is a philosophical analysis of the womanhood in the context of M. Merleau-Ponty`s ontology of corporeality (la chair). The womanhood is grasped (after Levinas) as a cosmic element, penetrating the tissue of the embodiment of the logos of the world. As an element of the

Kazimierz MrówkaPages 99-105DOI: 10.5840/cultura20085210 ABSTRACT In my article I analyze one fragment (B1) of the poem On Nature of Parmenides, which introduces the entire work. I describe the journey of the young man, from darkness to light, as a mystic way to the Truth (Aletheia), the way of gnosis.