Razvoj Kulture i Njezina Uloga u Životu suvremenog Čovjeka
Development of Culture and its Role in the Life of a contemporary Man

Summary/Abstract: A perception according to which the world is evil represents a lamentation old as the history is. That opinion is so important that even Kant starts one of his works with it and entire contemporary philosophical discourse, from Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard till modern era, does not throw into doubt the mentioned statement, but it takes it as the light motive of their own thinking. It is clear that people could not feel differently in the prehistoric and at the beginning of historic period. Nature superiority, contingence of one’s own creature and tribe hierarchy did not leave any choice. But it is a mystery why their descendants firmly stick to the perception from the beginning of this text in the period when even phones are smart. Civilization achievement enabled man to travel across the ocean, to go to the Moon, distance communication as well as many other possibilities which were impossible even in fairytales. It stays under question if the hundreds years old artifacts made a modern man happier and more satisfied and if his life is fulfilled more than his ancestors’ life. Referring to the chosen critical approach, this paper tries to enlighten the given topic. It does that by reviving Freud’s awarded work from 1930 called Das Unbenhagen in der Kultur. Unpretentious innovativeness of the paper is reflected in putting Freud’s theses about culture development in the selected discourse or in the society of significant contemporaries such as Nicolai Hartmann and Albert Camus. e interdisciplinary insight into crisis situation, which was felt in all scientific fields and arts and which was proved here by Freud’s thoughts and viewpoints of the mentioned philosophers, was developed on that humanistic basis.

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