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Susi FerrarelloPages 163-174DOI: 10.5840/cultura20129212 ABSTRACT I am looking at a bird flying above my head and I barely see it; in the meantime I am talking to a friend of mine about my job. All these things: the bird, my friend, my job, even the ground beneath my feet, are outside of me. Yet, while […]

Dennis IoffePages 175-194DOI: 10.5840/cultura20129213 ABSTRACT This paper is focused on the major contributions of the two main schools of semiotic thought in Russia during the 20th century. It considers cultural mythologies of behaviour as the focal point of the Moscow-Tartu school and then proceeds to the pre-semiotic school of Russian thought, which dealt with the

Nicolito A. GiananPages 195-206DOI: 10.5840/cultura20129214 ABSTRACT The article aims to elucidate on the notion of philosophy of culture, particularly in non-Western societies. This is exemplified by the promotion of philosophy, with its advocates and approaches, in Filipino culture. In addition, it gives an account of a type of alienation that has had a profound influence

Diego BusiolPages 207-226DOI: 10.5840/cultura20129215 ABSTRACT Hong Kong is a peculiar case for the study of cultural practices. One of the most Westernized cities in Asia, Hong Kong is, to many people in China, one of the most ‘Chinese’ places in the country. Hong Kong’s no-place situation presents an interesting example of the tensions within and

I-Chun WangPages 227-236DOI: 10.5840/cultura20129216 ABSTRACT By discussing Bonduca (1611) a a Jacobean tragi-comedy in the Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher canon, generally judged by scholars to be the work of the second one alone, this paper looks into the tragic story of Queen Boadicea, as rewritten in fiction. The cultural and semiotic codes that Bonduca

Massimo LeonePages 237-258DOI: 10.5840/cultura20129217 ABSTRACT Tourism industry is increasingly stripping traveling of one of its most fundamental anthropological and existential values: its being a laboratory in which travelers can temporarily experience the disruption of their regime of sedentary belonging, protected by a plan of return. According to this perspective, non-touristy traveling is one of the

Danial YusofPages 7-28DOI: 10.5840/cultura20129118 ABSTRACT This paper examines parallels between contemporary Western and Islamic thought. It will propose that there is congruence between Western and Muslim political thought processes on issues of soft-foundationalism, negative theology, provisional truth claims and religious democracy, in order to offset hegemonic tendencies. This will be illustrated by a concise juxtaposition

Andrei CorneaPages 29-42DOI: 10.5840/cultura20129119 ABSTRACT My paper is a reply to Mr. Seungbae Park’s article, “Defence of Cultural Relativism” (Park, 2011), which holds that no culture is better than another. In response, my paper challenges the author’s method, fairly popular amongst some postmodern thinkers, that tends to equate cultural relativism and Einstein’s theory of relativity.

Andityas Soares De Moura Costa MatosPages 43-55DOI: 10.5840/cultura20129120 ABSTRACT Considering the basic assumption that the modern Law and State theory does not only bear similarities, but also draws true epistemological parallels to the constructions of Theology, Hans Kelsen intends to lay bare the ideological meaning that lies at the very core of the traditional dualism

Steven Cresap, Louis TietjePages 57-72DOI: 10.5840/cultura20129121 ABSTRACT Moral educators are faced with a number of polarizing trends, both in the political divide between liberals and conservatives and in the ideological divide between moral reasoners and character educators. Recent empirical research in psychology and anthropology, as exemplified in the work of Jonathan Haidt, has indicated that