Volume 6, Issue 2, 2009

Horst BaierPages 7-45DOI: 10.5840/cultura2009621 ABSTRACT Expulsion of senses. Acustic spaces: call and listening in interpretive sociology. Following the ‘mental constructs’ that are illustrative for Max Weber’s Idealtypologie, the ‘acustic spaces’ in the cultural concept of education are developed. The study is an analysis of the organization of command and obedience in Weber’s sociology of domination. […]

Robert C. TrundlePages 46-67DOI: 10.5840/cultura2009622 ABSTRACT A perennial influence on the aesthetics of fashion, fostered by Plato and Aristotle, is challenged today by a prevalent social constructionism. The latter embraces an impracticable biodenial as well as an incoherent epistemic relativism, reminiscent of Greek Sophism, whereby truth-claims about good fashion may be both true and false

Maximiliano E. KorstanjePages 68-77DOI: 10.5840/cultura2009623 ABSTRACT The Second World War symbolizes how a radical evil can be embodied in human minds. After holocaust many scholars tried to bond Frederic Nietzsche as the precursor of Nationalsocialism. Quite aside from such a fallacy, the present article not only intends to recover the thought of this outstanding philosopher

David CornbergPages 78-84DOI: 10.5840/cultura2009624 ABSTRACT The transition from modernity to post-modernity features changes in values amplified by an enormous increase in visual stimuli. This increase motivates analysis of the power of attention to create the present. Complexity theory illuminates this power and leads to the startling conclusion that we spend much of our waking life

Nicolae RâmbuOrcid-IDPages 85-107DOI: 10.5840/cultura2009625 ABSTRACT The presentation of nihilism as a phenomenon integrated in the category of illnesses is very common in the scientific literature. This paper is centered on the fact that nihilism is a major disease of the axiological conscience, an illness that can be diagnosed and treated by the philosopher like a

Frederic WillPages 108-117DOI: 10.5840/cultura2009626 ABSTRACT This essay illustrates senses in which linear time can be proven to be non existent. Yet, as the essay agrees, the practical use of linear time, as an organizational principle in life, is unquestionable. Do we live a lie by relying on the non existent to undergird our lives? Or

Nicolito A. GiananPages 118-128DOI: 10.5840/cultura2009627 ABSTRACT This article is intended to promote the role of culture in the conception of philosophy, upholding the notion that philosophy emerges from culture. In fact, this attempt goes with the contention that philosophy does not subsist in a vacuum; philosophy requires a culture of human beings, capable of thinking

Stefan Bratosin, Mihaela-Alexandra Tudor IonescuPages 129-144DOI: 10.5840/cultura2009628 ABSTRACT Contributions of science of culture to the research in organizational communication field. The present paper aims to discuss the conditions of likelihood of inserting a methodological option in the field of organisational communication, an option that rose from the project of Ernst Cassirer to formulate a general

Simona Mitroiu, Elena AdamPages 145-158DOI: 10.5840/cultura2009629 ABSTRACT The main objectives of this paper are to analyze the relation between memory and oblivion and their exterior forms to the level of physical and cultural space. The notion of memory places (defined as accumulations of signs of identity and their materializations) is presented in its two manifestations:

Raphael BextenPages 161-184DOI: 10.5840/cultura20096210 ABSTRACT ‘What is the sufficient reason for the inalienable dignity of man?’ If man has an inalienable dignity, there has to be an ontologically sufficient reason for the inalienable dignity of man. We find this ontologically sufficient reason for the inalienable dignity of man in the ontological being and essence of