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Liudmila BaevaPages 73-83DOI: 10.5840/cultura20129122 ABSTRACT This article is dedicated to basing a new current of philosophy – existential axiology. The nature of this theory involves the understanding of values as responses of a person to key existential challenges: death, solitude, dependence of the nature and the society, etc. Value is the striving of a human […]

Paola PartenzaPages 85-100DOI: 10.5840/cultura20129123 ABSTRACT The concept of truth is one of the pivotal elements in Mary Wollstonecraft’s works. In line with her philosophical treatise, Maria: or the Wrongs of Woman (published posthumously in 1798) it becomes a paradigmatic expression of her thought. The author textualizes the obfuscation of the truth and the repression of

Dan-Eugen RaţiuPages 101-122DOI: 10.5840/cultura20129124 ABSTRACT This article explores recent developments in the sociology of the arts, namely the new theoretical framework set up by the French sociologist Pierre-Michel Menger in order to approach the artistic activity. It aims to show how he has shaped new tools of understanding and modelling for exploring the arts, as

Frederic WillPages 123-134DOI: 10.5840/cultura20129125 ABSTRACT Being part of a culture seems, on the face of it, empirically describable, and verifiable. But in fact that kind of participation is not so easy to characterize. Our existence as members of a culture is given to us fleetingly, and in awarenesses tightly locked to the awareness of the

Dennis IoffePages 135-154DOI: 10.5840/cultura20129126 ABSTRACT This article discusses the role of ideology in the Avant-Garde of both Russia and Western Europe. For this purpose, it is necessary to clearly delineate “ideology” and “politics,” which takes up the first part of this study. A number of different views of these aspects, as expressed by several critical

Abdul Rashid MotenPages 155-178DOI: 10.5840/cultura20129127 ABSTRACT Though centuries old, Islamophobia has increased in intensity as it is extensively documented by surveys and reports published by various governmental and non-governmental organizations. This dislike towards Islam and Muslims is, due, amongst other factors, to an increasing number of Muslim citizens and asylum seekers in the West bent

Seungbae ParkPages 179-194DOI: 10.5840/cultura20129128 ABSTRACT I criticize the following three arguments for moral objectivism. 1. Since we assess moral statements, we can arrive at some moral truths (Thomson, 2006). 2. One culture can be closer to truths than another in moral matters because the former can be closer to truths than the latter in scientific

Reena CheruvalathPages 195-204DOI: 10.5840/cultura20129129 ABSTRACT It is proposed to examine the need for redefining self deception in an Indian socio-cultural context and also on the basis of different social roles that one plays in his/her life time. Self-deception can be defined as the process of acting or behaving against one’s true inner feelings to maintain

Alexander BaumgartenPages 205-213DOI: 10.5840/cultura20129130 ABSTRACT This article investigates the original meaning of a passage of Plotinus’ Enneads, the treatise On Fate (Enneads, III, 1, 5). The thesis of the article envisages the understanding of the passage in the light of a Plotinian critic of astrology and argues that the understanding and the modern translations of

Morten Ebbe Juul NielsenPages 215-234DOI: 10.5840/cultura20129131 ABSTRACT Do we have a “duty to recognize culture”? The aim of this paper is to examine the following question: assuming we have reasons to respect or value recognition per se, do we on that background also have reasons to recognize culture? More specifically, does “culture” furnish a particular