culturology, philosophy of culture, cultural systems, universalism, particularism, postmodern culture
Abstract
The crisis of the notion of culture is today evident in the conflict between universalism and particularism, between notions concerning the normative-aesthetic and the anthropological-descriptive. The author outlines the historical reasons which, in the post-modern era, have led to a conflict between western universalism and other cultures of the world, and to the complex relations between cultural industry, post-modernist relativity, the political functionalization of high culture and the plurality of the politics of identity. He advocates the revalorization of a radical extensiveness of the universalistic idea of culture of the Enlightenment.
