Ove Skarpenes, Rune Sakslind, Roger HestholmPages 7-27DOI: 10.5840/cultura20161311 ABSTRACT The aim in this article is to widen the understanding of the significance of morality in the Norwegian social formation by comparing it with the French and the American case. After the introductory discussion of the new sociology of morality, previous findings from a study of […]
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Devendra Nath TiwariPages 49-68DOI: 10.5840/cultura20161313 ABSTRACT This article is about a spiritual response to environmental crisis, an emerging field of ethics that joins ecology and environmentalism with the awareness of sacred within the creation2. It investigates into the Vedic texts for finding out the philosophical attitude about the earth and our spiritual obligations and responsibilities
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Mădălin OnuPages 69-88DOI: 10.5840/cultura20161314 ABSTRACT Herder, the German humanist from the end of the 18th century, a representative of Weimar classicism and of the Sturm und Drang movement, man of letters, philosopher of history, defender of popular cultures, advocate of the uniqueness and importance of every civilization. The ways in which one may summarize his
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Dale JacquettePages 89-105DOI: 10.5840/cultura20161315 ABSTRACT Karl Marx’s socio-economic analysis of capitalism and the conditions of industrial production are meant to imply the competitive alienation of workers in at least two important senses: (1) Workers are alienated from their tools and materials because under capitalism they generally do not own, develop or cultivate the means of
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Jinghua GuoPages 107-124DOI: 10.5840/cultura20161316 ABSTRACT Playing an irreplaceable role for the whole speedy development in East Asia, Hong Kong is an example of a multicultural cosmopolitan urban centre in the Pacific Rim with strong ties with the Atlantic. However, with regards to mainland China, Hong Kong has always held a marginal position, carrying multiple marginal
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Agnieška JuzefovičPages 125-136DOI: 10.5840/cultura20161317 ABSTRACT Visual turn and replacement of linear sequential communication with visual analogues cause growing variety of scopic regimes and interest in the topic of visuality. This interest is particularly apparent in Lithuanian academic magazines Santalka (Coactivity) and Creativity Studies (former Limes), which are devoted to the topics of philosophy, creative industries
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Mahdi Dahmardeh, Abbas Parsazadeh, Saman RezaiePages 137-160DOI: 10.5840/cultura20161318 ABSTRACT This study is designed to delve into the issue of culture from the lens of pragmatics as far as the translation of Persian expressions is concerned. To this end, the researchers explored two problematic areas in translation: the first one is a universally challenging element of
Culture Matters: the Question of Metaphor and Taarof in Translation Read More »
Janina SombetzkiPages 161-180DOI: 10.5840/cultura20161319 ABSTRACT Popular posthumanist theories are revealing a lot about their origin from enlightenment humanism. In this paper I will firstly have a closer look on the history of the enlightenment-humanistic concept of human nature and its roots in the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh. Afterwards I will show how this notion of
How “Post” Do We Want to Be – Really? The Boon and Bane of Enlightenment Humanism Read More »
