Structure of the Research: Toward Transculturality (original) (raw)

Abstract

This research project meets the premises at the different studies and academic experiences realized by two editors between Orient and Occident. Cultures are not self-enclosed or static entities. They overlap and interact, if only to distinguish themselves from one another. "Cultures are like clouds, their confines ever changing, coming together or moving apart […] and sometimes merging to produce new forms arising from those that preceded them yet differing from them entirely" (UNESCO, 2007) This research project meets the premises at the different studies and academic experiences realized by two editors between Orient and Occident. The concept of culture is deeply changed. Having undergone a dramatic transformation over the course of at least two centuries, the notion of culture is ubiquitous in political discourse yet conceptually elusive. Core debates revolve around the content of culture, its relationship to society and civilization as well as its function and role in the human condition. However, it is very difficult to meet a good cultural policy in the governmental programs in the world. Perhaps we must first ask ourselves what culture means: what does culture do? and what should culture do? Historically, the notion of culture was explicitly normative. This concept represented, more often than not, the eighteenth-and nineteenth-century humanistic understandings. Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy analyzed this belief. Arnold held that culture is […] a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world; and through this knowledge, turning a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habits; the culture we recommend is, above all, an inward operation.

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