Philosophy of Culture 3800-FK24-M

The lecture is to be a systematic introduction into the specific character of the philosophical reflection on the phenomenon of culture. The starting point is the conviction that culture can be understood only as intertwined with man and vice versa. Man can be understood and can understand him-/herself only within the horizon of his-/her entanglement in culture, in its axiological, symbolic, imaginative dimensions. Man can be given to him-/herself only through culturally determined forms of experiencing his-/her being-in-the-world. The crucial category will be that of cultural experience and the main methodological perspective will be the anthropological philosophy of culture, which point at and analyze the relations between man and culture. The particular accent will be put on the dynamic, polyphonic, multidimensional and tensive character of culture.