July 2010

Massimo Verzella, Aldo MarroniPages 9-20DOI: 10.5840/cultura2010721 ABSTRACT According to the French philosopher Alain, art must regain its existence as a real and solid object to counteract deceitful imagination. In line with this view is Yves Michaud’s description of the “gaseous” state of contemporary art. Paradoxically, the wide circulation of many ‘artistic’ products, destined to be […]

Ştefan GaiePages 21-37DOI: 10.5840/cultura2010722 ABSTRACT Public Art has represented a rising artistic genre for the last few decades. Art abandoned museums and galleries to conquer the public space, a fact which gave birth to passionate controversies that cannot be approached only in terms of paradigms of art history. Taking Richard Serra’s controversial sculpture, Tilted Arc,

Douglas I.O. AnelePages 38-53DOI: 10.5840/cultura2010723 ABSTRACT This paper examines the impact of the introduction of Western (European) technical civilization on regional cultures in Nigeria, using Igboland in South-Eastern Nigeria as a test case. It begins with a discussion of some general features of Western technical civilization whose evolution has been profoundly influenced by technological advances

Nicolae RâmbuOrcid-IDPages 54-66DOI: 10.5840/cultura2010724 ABSTRACT Theoreticians of civilization have defined a series of anomalies of the European culture as cultural maladies. But this notion was used from author to author with very different meanings, being vaguely defined or used as a simple metaphor. In the ideological discourse of the Third Reich the references to the

Ronald Olufemi BadruPages 67-80DOI: 10.5840/cultura2010725 ABSTRACT The paper adopts philosophical research methodologies of conceptual clarification, critical analysis, and extensive argumentation. It attempts to jointly employ African metaphysical and epistemological grounds to address the problem of finding appropriate justification for reparations for Africa on the issue of past slavery and slave trade. The paper states that

Md. Munir Hossain TalukderPages 81-99DOI: 10.5840/cultura2010726 ABSTRACT Ecological crisis is one of the major worries at 21st century. The ecological damages already caused are severe, and many species including human beings are facing serious challenge to survive. The cross-cultural worldviews could be a promising approach to solve this global problem. Every culture reflects some core

Marius SidoriucPages 100-121DOI: 10.5840/cultura2010727 ABSTRACT A madhouse can be regarded as the realm where concepts do not have a constantly changing topos. This autarchic sanctuary has no “patients” and is a true malady of the soul. An “engaged” philosophy is one which deals with the selection of concept consumption. On behalf of the healthiness of

Teodor NegruPages 122-136DOI: 10.5840/cultura2010728 ABSTRACT Within the context of today’s world overwhelmed by the increasing importance of capitalism, the need to analyse the relationship between man and capital in order to better understand the transformations culture has been undergoing. This endeavour relies on the idea that many concepts and phenomena whose presence in our lives

William FerraioloPages 139-147DOI: 10.5840/cultura2010729 ABSTRACT In Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire, Chalmers Johnson offers a prescient analysis of the dangers presented by an unchecked U.S. military-industrial complex and the likely consequences of American interventionism abroad. Blowback’s prescience is revealed by the fact that Johnson predicted escalating terrorist attacks on the United States

Thor Olav OlsenPages 148-163DOI: 10.5840/cultura20107210 ABSTRACT To go on in the business of living, man needs a basic certainty. This is what I interpret as metaphysics. A prerequisite for making metaphysics is that you have some understanding of Biography of Philosophy. On the other hand, life is not a pre-given entity; it depends on what