INTERCULTURALITY: AN ATTEMPT OF RECONSTRUCTION IN A WORLD OF DECONSTRUCTION
INTERCULTURALITY: AN ATTEMPT OF RECONSTRUCTION IN A WORLD OF DECONSTRUCTION

Summary/Abstract: We live in a complex, ultra-dynamic and uncertain world for the human being, a world subjected permanently to an avalanche of challenges and demand that are often unpredictable. The understanding of the contemporary society and of its evolving course calls for an approach to the topic of culture. Together with the economic issues, the cultural subjects have gained increased importance in accomplishing and understanding social development and geopolitical transformations. More and more realities and phenomena of the contemporary world are being explained through culture, which has become one of the decisive non-economic factors of advance. The idea of a new paradigm of culture is being launched, as a result of a reconfiguration of its internal structure, through the expansion of knowledge and communication, of consumer culture, of post-modern forms of art etc. At the same time, we witness an alteration of social mentalities, cultural conducts, taste, of the contemporary man’s whole lifestyle. If modern cultural globalization has initiated the expansion of western values and lifestyles (occidentalization of the world), then, the development of informational society and the amplification of communications have caused a multi-directional development, a non-unilateral globalization, very hard to understand and manage. Interculturality, as a theoretical and actional principle, is intended as the path toward understanding and solving the contemporary world’s challenges.

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