The Hegelian Concept of Culture
The Hegelian Concept of Culture

Summary/Abstract: For in the second half of the nineteenth century, the original synonymity between “Kultur” and “Bildung” was broken, and Bildung has acquired the more restricted meaning of education (and the contents acquired through the educational process). Consequently, Hegel’s conception of Bildung has been predominantly treated in its individualistic pedagogic aspect alone. This has been reinforced by the fact that it is this aspect of Bildung with which Hegel himself dealt in the most extensive and explicit manner, though mostly in his extra-systematic writings and largely due to accidental, biographic circumstances. Today it requires the labour of remembrance, a work of historical reconstruction, to recall this practical-projective aspect of the use of “culture” to which, however, its original importance and popularity was primarily due. It is the loss of this meaning that to a significant degree conditions our situation today.

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