Dlaczego trudno brać kulturę na serio?
Why is Difficult to Take Culture Seriously?

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to show that the most important reason for the distrustful attitude to culture, which is the participation of many political and economic decision makers (but also broad circles of potential recipients of cultural offer) is the co-existence of various criteria legitimizing culture and various attributes assigned to it. This situation creates numerous tensions, of which the most spectacular is of course the tension between the pursuit of instrumentalization of culture and striving to maintain and expand its autonomy. Perhaps the only way to eliminate this tension is to give up thinking about culture as a stimulus for socio-economic development and to recognize it as a voluntary cost borne by society that does not have to pay. It seems that it is only with such an assumption that it becomes possible to democratize of culture and culture democratization.

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