In his text “Transculturality – the Puzzling Form of Cultures Today” Wolfgang Welsch explains in a few words Wittgensteins concept of culture:
“Philosophically, the one person who provides the greatest help for a transcultural concept of culture, however, is Wittgenstein. He outlined an on-principle pragmatically-based concept of culture, which is free of ethnic consolidation and unreasonable demands for homogeneity. According to Wittgenstein, culture is at hand wherever practices in life are shared. The basic task is not to be conceived of as an understanding of foreign cultures, but as an interaction with foreignness. [...] Culture in Wittgenstein’s sense is, by its very structure, open to new connexions and to further feats of integration. To this extent, a cultural concept reformulated along Wittgenstein’s lines seems to me to be particularly apt to today’s conditions.”
http://www2.uni-jena.de/welsch/Papers/transcultSociety.html
“Philosophically, the one person who provides the greatest help for a transcultural concept of culture, however, is Wittgenstein. He outlined an on-principle pragmatically-based concept of culture, which is free of ethnic consolidation and unreasonable demands for homogeneity. According to Wittgenstein, culture is at hand wherever practices in life are shared. The basic task is not to be conceived of as an understanding of foreign cultures, but as an interaction with foreignness. [...] Culture in Wittgenstein’s sense is, by its very structure, open to new connexions and to further feats of integration. To this extent, a cultural concept reformulated along Wittgenstein’s lines seems to me to be particularly apt to today’s conditions.”
http://www2.uni-jena.de/welsch/Papers/transcultSociety.html
“I take this to be very important. Basically I think it
is evident – yet it tends to be overlooked incurrent reflection. For in
modernity we got used to thinking that everything is strictly bound
toits cultural context. We take all experience and cognition to be
strictly determined by their cultural framework and hence restricted to
it. This is the typically modern axiom – or dogma – behind the
contemporary relativism, contextualism and culturalism dominant in the
humanities and in cultural studies today. But with this axiom we are
blinding ourselves theoretically to the obviously non culture-bound, but
transcultural potential of outstanding works or conceptions.”
Sources:
“Transculturality – the Puzzling Form of Cultures Today” Wolfgang Welsch
From: Spaces of Culture: City, Nation, World, ed. by Mike Featherstone and Scott Lash, London: Sage 1999, 194-213.
From: Spaces of Culture: City, Nation, World, ed. by Mike Featherstone and Scott Lash, London: Sage 1999, 194-213.
Wolfgang Welsch, Rethinking identity in the age of globalization – a transcultural perspective
Aesthetics & Art Science, ed. Taiwan Association of Aesthetics and Art Science, No. 1 (2002), 85-94.
Transculturality - the Puzzling Form of Cultures Today
"[...] a concept of culture which, I think, is appropriate to most cultures today: the concept of transculturality. I will contrast it with three other concepts: first with the classical concept of single cultures and then with the more recent concepts of interculturality and multiculturality. I believe the concept of transculturality to be the most adequate concept of culture today - for both descriptive and normative reasons.
[...]
Philosophically, the one person who provides the greatest help for a transcultural concept of culture, however, is Wittgenstein. He outlined an on-principle pragmatically-based concept of culture, which is free of ethnic consolidation and unreasonable demands for homogeneity. According to Wittgenstein, culture is at hand wherever practices in life are shared. The basic task is not to be conceived of as an understanding of foreign cultures, but as an interaction with foreignness. [...] Culture in Wittgenstein's sense is, by its very structure, open to new connexions and to further feats of integration. To this extent, a cultural concept reformulated along Wittgenstein's lines seems to me to be particularly apt to today's conditions."
From: Spaces of Culture: City, Nation, World, ed. by Mike Featherstone and Scott Lash, London: Sage 1999, 194-213.
Rethinking identity in the age of globalization - a transcultural perspective
"It's a truism to say that we are living in an age of globalization. It's a truism of almost the same degree to state that one of the most urgent problems posed by globalization is the problem of identity - of personal as well as cultural identity.
I want to address the question of identity in the first part of my paper, linking it with my conception of transculturality. [...]"
From: Aesthetics & Art Science, ed. Taiwan Association of Aesthetics and Art Science, No. 1 (2002), 85-94.
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