TRI LICA KULTURE
THE THREE FACES OF CULTURE

Summary/Abstract: There are three fundamental interpretations of modern culture arising from a general dynamics of western civilization: that of Enlightenment, corresponding to the pioneering period of Eurocentrism and its universalist mission; the national, emerging from the European half-periphery in the 19th century, as a world of particular and divided collective identities and traditions; and the intercultural interpretation, appearing in the 1970s, first on the North- American, and then on the European continent as the result of a crisis of both universalist as well as nationalist projects of integrating societies and nations, and as an attempt to establish dialogue among cultures instead of general assimilation on the one hand, and antagonisms and prejudices, on the other. In all three cases, however, and especially in the last, these interpretations of culture very rapidly started losing their initial creative Promethean intention.

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