Culture of Cultivation?
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Classical text, common culture, high culture, paideion, cultivation, existential semioticsAbstract
The essay deals with problem of the so-called classical text representing Western high culture, opposed to the so-called common or popular culture. The British cultural studies claimed that popular culture was everywhere marginal whereas the high culture was dominating. For them culture was anthropologically simply what we do every day and how we live. However, there is also another view of culture as a goal, ideal for which we are striving and which we try to reach by education. It is the Greek idea of paideion or the German concept of Bildung. Roger Scruton distinguished the high culture which was just 'the best which has been ever thought and said'. As an intuitive basis the article offers a paradigm of statements representing this view from Plato, Cicero and Seneca to Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Goethe, Kierkegaard, Georges Sand, Proust, Sartre, and Hannah Arendt. It is fashionable nowadays to 'decanonize' everything but, before, one has to know what ultimately is the canon itself.
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