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contemporary aspirations and culture?

End of a secular religion

Culture . The term has Latin etymology, and then, a long history. Coleraine, agriculture farming, but also to honor, pay tribute a deity. The first to guess the use that would make was the modern Cicero: "A field can be fertile as you want - write in Tuscolane II, 13 - but if it is grown does not bear fruit: and the same soul, if not to educate you. " Quasi-religious idea of \u200b\u200bintellectual self-care, which would have penetrated to the point where the imagery and language from the West indicate that they do not mean everything and nothing. From cultural anthropology, sociology of culture, the most recent cultural studies, to use the generic term to define any activity deemed worth edifying. Despite the ancient origin, in Actually, the first to speak of culture in the modern sense was the poet Matthew Arnold in early nineteenth century, and the first to codify the critical sense was, in 1870 the British anthropologist Edward Taylor. What is the reason, then, a fortune so sudden and new?
For those who wish to learn, the subject has in recent times in the middle of a real publishing adventure which had its popular peak in 2006 with the publication of a small booklet useful as the famous Peter Burke: The cultural history (Mill) . Adventure continued throughout 2009 and still in progress with the appearance of a flurry of books on the topic: The Seduction of Culture in German Wolf Lepenies (2009), Organising the culture of Paul DiMaggio (2009), Studying Culture, an anthology, edited by Marco Santoro and Roberta Sassatelli (2009), as a culture capital, again by Mark Santoro (2010) and The Invention art, a cultural history of Larry Shiner (Einaudi 2010), just to name a few. A small shelf of a vast library, just enough to reveal some essential truth. First of all, to that culture is a bourgeois concept created to replace the sacred and the religious with the arrival of secularization. He explains with exemplary clarity Shiner in his essay, reconstructing the time when the culture studied here in its aesthetic manifestations, became the secular religion of today. Transcendental game of our faculties, and the revelation of man's rational freedom, for enlightenment Kantian universal in the particular establishment or apophany of the divine, according to the romantic universe.
To celebrate the secular religion of the new rulers, would think up new institutions, colleges, auditoriums and museums. Objective: to take the greatest masterpieces of the past, to uproot them from their contexts on the pretext of freeing the instrumental use of the old powers, monarchy and church. It ended, so that any form of knowledge, any world view - that it was popular belief or truth God's revealed - were bent to the new bourgeois truth and described as incomplete forms of culture. Rarely, ideological operation would be more effective. In confirmation, the rooting of new cultural institutions, the object of pilgrimages lay of mass tourism attracted by the promise of a horizon from the values \u200b\u200band made perfect. Just as the efficacy of these formulas, the ability to interpret needs and the insistent demands of human beings, would be carried out early in the nascent cultural anthropology, renewed, then the so-called cultural studies which, under the stimulus of Marxist criticism, would have revealed the ' middle class origins of the concept and invested less institutionalized areas of so-called mass culture. The discovery of cultural anthropology, in particular the trend defined structural-functional is as simple as essential: the effectiveness of a shared vision of the world - be it religious, philosophical or, as in the case of the modern West, cultural - is in solutions , justifications, principles, combining useful to address the problems of the present. Is essentially the ability to push human beings to overcome the fear that feed towards each other to unite against the dangers of nature, disease and death. Challenges that bourgeois culture has so far been able to understand and fully address, the rational design and collective industry. And the future?
Judging from the cuts made a bit 'everywhere, from the return of spirituality marginalized by secularization, the spread of world views based on new language of images, processed by the decline of institutions in-office events, the category of culture - understood in all its historical significance and usefulness - it would just hurt. Evil, as the project's promise that the group has given credibility, now threatened by ecological crisis from recurring economic instability and globalization crazy that no one seems able to control. Culture, therefore, probably obsolete category in a world where active industrial bourgeoisie has been replaced from samples of finance, is still falling short of serving the future?