Culture-process and phenomenon, synchronic and diachronic, particular and universal

Abstract

The current title should not be analyzed in its strictest form, as the current paper is intended as a “niche” in the extremely vast plane of the creational phenomenon, a timid way of opening new horizons in analyzing a complex, controversial, synchronic and diachronic process – culture.Our attempt is full of risks since we can hardly claim to analyze and include all essential aspects that should totally satisfy the reader.As a sign of identity, culture remains a vividly disputed issue now that an integrating strategy of cultures is more and more conspicuously being delineated. Contrary to such integrating tendencies, cultural identities have to become elements that surpass stereotypes and standard structures, asserting the multiplicity of the cultural phenomenon wherever the plurality of forms and cultures does not infringe on universality.Admitting cultural diversity as a phenomenon as well as a process implies value, which represents an essential condition of historical survival. Cultural entities in the totality of their inner diversity demonstrate that the universal as a key concept of the contemporary world cannot be understood outside cultures as identity structures.Macro-history also implies “local history”, the universal at cultural level implies the particular not as simple mathematical sum but first and foremost as value and historical engagement. Current cultural unity can only exist through its structural and value diversity.