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Contemporary Culture Facing New Value Landmarks

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  • Nikoleta Mihaleva

    (University of Economics - Varna)

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Contemporary culture, viewed as specific "social code", preserving the various forms ofhuman activity, behaviour and communication and handing them down from generation togeneration, today faces serious trials. The basic values of technogenic civilization, shaped up afterthe New Times, are greatly modified in the culture of Modernity (the end of the XIXth and the XXthcentury). The confrontation of culture and civilization has led to a crisis in values, most stronglyreflected in the conflict between "the two cultures", that is in breaking the balance between thehumanities and art, on the one hand, and the mathematized natural science knowledge, on the other.This loss of the "spiritual principle" (to quote A. Camus) in European culture set new landmarks forvalues in the time of postmodernism (the end of the XXth and the beginning of the XXIst century).We are witnessing the birth of an alternative cultural project for the future, in which the dialogue between cultures plays the role of a means for civilizational development.

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  • Nikoleta Mihaleva, 2010. "Contemporary Culture Facing New Value Landmarks," An Annual Book of University of Economics - Varna, University of Economics - Varna, vol. 82(1), pages 149-176, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrn:yrbook:y:2010:i:1:p:149-176
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    Keywords

    civilizational development; Contemporary culture; social code; Landmarks; crisis in values;
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    • A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values

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