Proceedings of the XXII World Congress of Philosophy

Volume 36, 2008

Philosophy of Culture

Emilia Guliciuc
Pages 49-55

Identity, Modernism, Postmodernism and Transmodernism

We could ask: how national could be a culture or another? The modernist or postmodernist perspectives seems to be unilateral here. Could be transmodernism the right sollution? The distictions between modernism, postmodernism and transmodernism are actually a pretext to set into discussion again the old dispute between Culture, regarded as a humanity universal feature and national cultures, perceived as a human community tradition symbol (community that claims a territory, a language, a religious belief and a certain government form).